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. Line art. |
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Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit Wayne F. Hill,Cynthia J. Ottchen Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2007 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
base bawd bear beat better blood body brain breath comes common coward damned death devil dost doth drink earth Ends face fall false fellow fiend fire fool foolish foul give gross hair hand hang hate hath head hear heart heaven hell Henry idle ignorance infect insults keep kind knave lady leave light live look lord marry mind monster mouth nature never nose offend piece plague play poor proud rascal rogue rotten rude scorn scurvy shallow slave smell soul speak spirit stand strange sweet talk thee There's thine thing thou art thou hast thought toad tongue traitor valiant vile villain whoreson wilt wind woman worm worse worth wretch young youth
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit |
| Autoren | William Shakespeare, Wayne F. Hill, Cynthia J. Öttchen |
| Herausgeber | Wayne F. Hill, Cynthia J. Öttchen |
| Mitwirkende | Wayne F. Hill, Cynthia J. Öttchen |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage |
| Verlag | Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0517885395, 9780517885390 |
| Länge | 323 Seiten |
| Zitat exportieren | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |