$ 24.95

“The smutty Shakespeare game you need for your next smarty-pants party.”

—Washington Post

To be profane, or not to be? Bards Dispense Profanity is 100 mock-serious questions for our time and 375 answers copied word-for-word from the works of William Shakespeare. You be the judge of which answers are best. All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely playas.

— Contains 20 of our favorite prompt cards from our acclaimed Dick: A Card Game Based on the Novel by Herman Melville, plus 80 all-new prompts.

— Answer cards come from all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays.

Mostly these nineteen:



The Tempest

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Measure for Measure

Much Ado About Nothing

Love’s Labour’s Lost

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Merchant of Venice

The Taming of the Shrew

All’s Well that Ends Well

Twelfth Night

Henry IV, Part 2

Richard III

Romeo and Juliet

Macbeth

Hamlet

King Lear

Othello

Cymbeline

Antony and Cleopatra



With a few cards each from: As You Like It, Henry V, Julius Caesar, The Winter’s Tale, Titus Andronicus, and Troilus and Cressida.

— Each answer card cites the play, act, and scene (in case your dad doubts that Shakespeare really has Hamlet allude to “the incestuous pleasure of his bed”).

— Just a touch of help with early modern English: unobtrustive glosses on about 10% of the cards define archaic words with non-intuitive meanings.

— For 4 or more players. Not for kids.

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And by the way: Bards Dispense Profanity is not Cards Against Humanity. Not even a little bit.