If Shakespearean insults were used today :) We taught you how to insult like the British but now we’re invading new territory: how to insult like the Elizabethan British! And who does that better than famed Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare? Siobhan Thompson teaches us some of Shakespeare’s best put-downs in this episode of the Anglophenia YouTube series: Check out our list of sources and perhaps gather your favorite Shakespearean insults from the Web’s Complete Works of William Shakespeare: “I bite my thumb, sir.” – Sampson in Romeo and Juliet (Act 1, Scene 1) “Bolting-hutch of beastliness!” – Prince Henry in Henry IV, Part I (Act 2, Scene 4) “Starvling, elfskin, dried neat’s tongue, bull’s pizzle, stockfish” – Falstaff in Henry IV, Part I (Act 2, Scene 4) “Fat guts” – Prince Hal in Henry IV, Part I (Act 2, Scene 1) “Swaggering rascal” – Doll Tearsheet in Henry IV, Part II (Act 2, Scene 4) “Filthy bung” – Doll Tearsheet in Henry IV, Part II (Act 2, Scene 4) “Rampallion” – Falstaff in Henry IV, Part II (Act 2, Scene 1) “And thou unfit for any place but Hell” – Lady Anne in Richard III (Act 1, Scene 2) “…as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage” – Jacques in As You Like It (Act 2, Scene 7) “…as loathsome as a toad” – Nurse in Titus Andronicus (Act 4, Scene 2) “Virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese” – Parolles in All’s Well That Ends Well (Act 1, Scene 1) “Dissembling harlot” – Antipholus of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors (Act 4, Scene 4) “Fishmonger” – Hamlet in Hamlet (Act 2, Scene 2) “Scullion” – Hamlet in Hamlet (Act 2, Scene 2) “I wonder that you will still be talking. Nobody marks you.” – Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (Act 1, Scene 1) “A fusty nut with no kernel.” – Thersites in Troilus and Cressida (Act 2, Scene 1) By Helen Donahue | Posted on September 24th, 2014 bbcamerica/anglophenia/2014/09/watch-shakespearean-insults-used-today/
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