Before we begin reading Act 1 of William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew as a class, it is important for all of you to become familiar with the playwright's language.
Please answer the following questions in your own blog:
1. What is "blank verse"? Give an example of it from your book.
2. Interpret these Shakespearean lines using your Shakespeare Packet: Reading Shakespeare's English:
a. "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" [R&J]
b. "Thou art more lovely and more temperate." [Sonnets XVIII]
c. "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well." [Macbeth]
d. "Who wooed in haste, and means to wed in leisure." [Taming of the Shrew]
3. How many creative Shakespearean insults can you come up with? Add "thou" or "thine" to the front of the lists picked up on your way in: "Thou+Column A+Column B+Column C!"
Post your BEST Shakespearean insult as a "comment" below.
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Thou saucy fat-kidneyed egg-shell.
Thou reeky sour-faced pantaloon.
Thou unmuzzled onion-eyed rabbit sucker
Thou unmuzzled sour-faced waterfly.
Thou purpled, clay-brained, rabbit-sucker.
Thou grizzled fat-kidneyed wipster
Thou peevish pinch-spotted moldwrap
thou bawdy dog-hearted lily livered onion eyed clot pole.
Thou a purpled onion-eyed younker
Thou Jaded bunch-backed Clot pole
Thou gnarling shrill-gorged canker blossom
Thou waggish paper-faced ruffian
Thou bawdy empty-hearted gull-catcher
Thou purpled sour-faced rabbit sucker
Thou whoreson, clay-brained crutch
Thou haughty iron-witted nut-hook
thou wenching lily livered younker
thou bawdy fat-kidneyed clot pole
thou yeasty shrill-gorged rabbit-sucker
Thou wenching, motley-minded remnant
thou quesy ill-breeding hedge-pig
thou bawdy bunch-backed canker-blossom
thou reeky evil-eyed cutpurse!
thou bawdy bunch-backed canker-blossom
Thou jaded empty-hearted rudesby
Thou grizzled evil-eyed ruffian.
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