Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your WitThe sharpest stings ever to snap from the tip of an English-speaking tongue are here at hand, ready to be directed at the knaves, villains, and coxcombs of the reader's choice. Culled from 38 plays, here are the best 5,000 examples of Shakespeare's glorious invective, arranged by play, in order of appearance, with helpful act and line numbers for easy reference, along with an index of topical scorn appropriate to particular characters and occasions. |
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Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit William Shakespeare,Wayne F. Hill,Cynthia J. Öttchen Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1995 |
Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit William Shakespeare,Wayne F. Hill,Cynthia J. Ottchen Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2009 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
All's Antony and Cleopatra art thou base bastard bawd beard beast blood brain breath carbonado characters sum Comedy of Errors Coriolanus counterfeit coward coxcomb damned devil doth drink dunghill earth false fellow fiend filthy fool foolish Fortune's foul gross hair hang hate hath heart heaven hell Henry Henry IV Henry VI humour idle infect insults King Lear knave knog live lord marry Merchant of Venice monster mouth never nose offend peevish plague poor proud rascal rogue rotten rude ruffian scorn scurvy shallow slander slave smell soul speak spirit strange swain sweet thee There's thine thing thou art thou hast Thou wilt thy face thyself Timon of Athens toad tongue traitor Troilus and Cressida valiant valour varlet vile villain wanton whoreson witch woman words worm wretch youth
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit |
| Autoren | Wayne F. Hill, Cynthia J. Ottchen |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage |
| Verlag | Crown, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0307421600, 9780307421609 |
| Länge | 336 Seiten |
| Zitat exportieren | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |