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Title: Shakespeare's Insults : Educating Your Wit by Cynthia J. Ottchen, Wayne F. Hill ISBN: 0-517-88539-5 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 03 October, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: lol funny to crude...
Comment: "Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! Vile thing, let loose,
Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent!"
-Midsummers Night's Dream
My favorite quote since I love cats.
Here is a volume of quotes designed to insult, yet some are far too crude to really use. I find myself asking: "Did Shakespeare really write this? And how did I miss this when watching a play?"
Well, it is much clearer in writing and if you don't quite comprehend it the first time, at least here you can read it again. Each insult is on a separate line of text complete with reference as to the play and the line.
The section on "How to Handle this book" is the funniest "introduction" to a book I have ever read.
"People need insults. Most people behave so abominably that they cry out for abuse. Charity moves us to meet this need. Abuse is a form of attention, and a little accommodating attention makes anyone feel human again."
It goes on....
Next a section on name calling lists short and snappy names you can use under your breath to amuse yourself. I would not say most of them!!1 I am however now interested to know what "drudge" really meant then! You will need a dictionary to uncloth these words as they are clocked in some mystery.
The plays are listed in alphabetical order...find your favorite and look up a few lines..memorize and keep them handy for posting at a discussion board or for rebuking someone who is especially rude to you.
Otherwise, just keep it around to amuse yourself to no
end with quotes you wish you had thought of yourself.
The "treasures" are buried in a ton of "unmentionable" phrases. While I abhor crudeness, I did find many quotes I absolutely loved. With pen in hand, I am marking off all my favorite lines.
"I must discontinue your company." Much
Ado About Nothing, 5. 1. 183-85
The final section on "Ready Insults" is a handy reference for specific encounters.
I would definately not say some of the phrases in this
book, nor do all of them amuse me, but if you find
just 10 phrases in this book you can use...to amuse...
It is quite worth it. An Index makes looking up
your favorite quotes a breeze.
Also look up: Brush up Your Shakespeare! by Michael Macrone
Rating: 4
Summary: Why use your own insults when Shakepeare's are so colorful?
Comment: Based on the premise that "people NEED insults," Hill and Ottchen here offer a catalogue of every insult the immortal bard ever published. It must have been a tedious collection process, but the work was well worth it; as anyone even the slightest bit familiar with Shakespeare would expect, here in this isolated form his insults reveal themselves as powerful, picturesque, and scathing. The language and the diversity of emotion and expression will not fail to impress you.
My one quibble with the collection is that is seems rudderless in its organization. If we are intended to use the language as our own, why does most of the book consist of a list of insults organized by PLAY (which is hard to use, and a bit tedious to read unless you are treating the book as a concordance for the play itself) rather than by type of insult or applicability? (The final section offers this, but it is VERY short). In terms of content and concept, though, this book makes for a great addition to a classroom, resource collection, letter-writing desktop, or to the Shakeseare-lover's coffee table -- a good gift for the scholar or bibliophile.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Book Of Bad Words
Comment: This was the best book I ever bought!
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Title: Coined by Shakespeare: Words and Meanings First Used by the Bard by Stanley Malless, Jeffrey McQuain, R. O. Blechman ISBN: 0877793530 Publisher: Merriam-Webster, Inc. Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Shakespeare's Bawdy (Routledge Classics) by Eric Partridge ISBN: 0415254000 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 29 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Dictionary of Quotations from Shakespeare: A Topical Guide to over 3,000 Great Passages from the Plays, Sonnets, and Narrative Poems by William Shakespeare, Hugh Rawson, Margaret Miner ISBN: 0452011272 Publisher: Meridian Books Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and Their Significance by Frankie Rubinstein ISBN: 0312126778 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: A Dictionary of Who, What, and Where in Shakespeare by Sandra Clark ISBN: 0844257575 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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