Ladies’ Home Erotica, a collection of short pieces by various female authors known collectively as The Kensington Ladies’ Erotica Society, contains a Shakespeare reference. In the story titled “Trio,” written by Sabina Sedgewick, there is a reference to Hamlet, or, more specifically, to one character from that play. Sedgewick writes: “Her small breasts greeted his first touch. But her long, nimble thighs stayed close together. Virginal. Ophelia” (p. 130). Though Hamlet himself comes to view her differently, Polonius and Laertes see Ophelia as virginal.
Ladies’ Home Erotica was published in 1984.
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