Shakespearean Insults Sierra Baker 4B

Shakespearean Insults

• Sierra Baker 4B

Who was William Shakespeare?

• English poet and playwright

• Writer of 37 plays

• Inventor of over 1,700 words

• Second most quoted writer

“Thou Crusty Batch of Nature.”

• Used in the Shakespearean tragedy “Troilus and Cressida”

• Used in a joking context

“Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal! What a brawling dost thou keep!”

• Interprets to “Silence, you fat rascal! What a scene you’re making!”

• Used in Shakespearean play Henry IV, Part I

“Foul-spoken coward, that thund’rest with thy tounge, and with thy weapon nothing dar’st perform!”

• Fighting words

• Basically means that the subject is all talk

• Used in “Titus Andronicus,” a Shakespearean tragedy.

Scratching could not make it worse an ’twere such a face as yours were.

• Means that scratching would not make the person’s face worse, because it is already very ugly.

• Originates from Shakespeare’s comedy, “Much Ado About Nothing”

“I do desire we may be better strangers”

• Means “I wish we didn’t know each other.”

• First used in the comedy by William Shakespeare “As You Like It”, written in 1599

“Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes!”

• Means “Get away from me, you’re poisoning my eyes!”

• This insult originates from Shakespeare’s historical play, Richard III

“Do Thou Amend Thy Face, and I’ll Amend My Life”

• Interprets to “When you fix your face, I will fix my life.”

• Used in Shakespearean play Henry IV, Part I

Then vs. Now

• Not much has changed, very similar

• Different vocabulary to portray the same meaning

Work Cited

• http://www.literarygenius.info/shakespeare-insults-dictionary.htm

• http://www.shakespeare-online.com/quotes/shakespeareinsults.html

• http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=henry4p1&Act=2&Scene=2&Scope=scene

• http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=henry6p2&Act=5&Scene=1&Scope=scene

• http://shakespeare.mit.edu/2henryvi/2henryvi.5.1.html

• http://www.plimoth.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1//9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/r/e/retail_30_6-21-11_001.jpg (opening picture)

• http://nfs.sparknotes.com/henry4pt1/page_163.html

• http://www.bachelorsdegree.org/2011/05/22/20-epic-shakespeare-insults-every-drama-geek-should-know/

• http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/wordsinvented.html