The entire kitchen scene in The Comedy of Errors is hilarious.
> Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench and all grease;
and I know not what use to put her to but to make a
lamp of her and run from her by her own light. I
warrant, her rags and the tallow in them will burn a
Poland winter: if she lives till doomsday,
she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.
If Shakespeare's plays were written today, there would be outrage. Political correctness was definitely not a concept in 1594.
> Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench and all grease; and I know not what use to put her to but to make a lamp of her and run from her by her own light. I warrant, her rags and the tallow in them will burn a Poland winter: if she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.
If Shakespeare's plays were written today, there would be outrage. Political correctness was definitely not a concept in 1594.