but in Shakespeare's time "nunnery" was also a euphemism for a brothel. Shakespeare is full of ambiguities which were well understood by the contempory audience

Quite true. I found a page (which I forgot to bookmark) which listed a large number of such double-meanings in Elizabethan and Stuart times. And anyone who has watched Ken Russell's films will know that a nunnery was potentially both convent and brothel at the same time, at least in fifteenth century France ...


The idiot also known as Capfka ...