out that scurvy wretch no I'm joking
look today we are looking at
Shakespeare's insults who is this lesson
form well if you're a competent English
speaker already then this lesson could
be quite enjoyable for you because he
can have some new insults up your sleeve
if you are an ESL speaker then you're
going to learn some interesting uses of
English now I just wanted to point out
that four hundred years ago when
Shakespeare died so just a bit before
that when he was doing his plays going
to the theatre was a very different
experience outside he'd probably see
some bear-baiting there'd be all sorts
of misbehavior going on inside and
outside the theatre it's not quite the
same as what going to theatre is like
today there's gonna be quite formal
right let's start off a Midsummer
Night's Dream that's the other thing I
wanted to say to you that his plays are
divided into three categories so we have
tragedies where lots of people get
killed and die
we've got comedies which are hopefully
funny and we have histories which are
typically about war for example Henry
the fifth a midsummer night's dream this
is a comedy comedies all come together
at the end it's a happy ending but
things go disastrously badly wrong
before that Midsummer Night's Dream this
is about lovers who the wrong person
loves the wrong person and it's a little
bit so the fairies have to get involved
and put magic potion I am sick when I do
look upon thee I am sick when I do look
upon thee thee just means you okay I am
sick when I look upon thee nice and sick
synched with all of these insults shakes
you'll find that Shakespeare is a true
word Smith there is an enjoyment at the
language if the sounds at the words
everything just seems quite complete in
these insults villain I have done thy
mother quite what he means by done I
will leave
to your imagination but something quite
bad has been done judging by the play
titus andronicus which is all about rape
and murder and bloodshed it's probably
not a very pleasant thing thou art a
boil a plague saw from King Lear so King
Lear it's about this old man who's
dividing his kingdom up between his
three sisters sorry between his three
daughters
thou art a boil a plague saw art here
means are thou means you you are a boil
you know like a nasty thing on your face
a plague sorcerer this was a time where
horrible diseases were going through the
population a plague saw Circe Paul a saw
like a nasty kind of infected spot
lovely really nice image there
taming of the shrew away away you
three-inch fool so here we are giving
the idea that the person is short in
some department at least
timin of as Athens
I'll beat thee but I would infect my
hands so it's like the alternative use
of the conditional tense here we would
probably now say I would beat thee but
I'll beat thee I will beat you but if I
did that I would infect my hands I'd get
some disease so you're you're so
disgusting that I'm not even going to
bother beating you up again from Timman
of Athens would thou wert clean enough
to spit on so if you were clean enough I
would spit on you but you're so
disgusting that my spit you're not even
worth receiving my spit would thou would
you wert if you were if you were clean
enough to spit on would thou I wish you
were clean enough for me to spit on you
henry v so some really fantastic
speeches in this play cry God for Harry
England and st. George if you want to
learn some really sort of rousing
patriotic speeches Henry v is the place
to go but this one more of an insult
thine face is not worth Sun burning so
thine meaning your your face is not
worth Sun burning okay it's not just me
who thinks you're ugly the Sun the Stars
the moon think you're ugly too Henry
that Henry the fourth thou art as fat as
butter butter pure butter obviously
being 100% fat thou art as fat as butter
all close to it thou art as fat as
butter we're also using a simile here so
we're comparing his the the fatness of
the other person to butter from as you
like it I desire that we be better
strangers so what we're expecting to be
said here is I would love to get to know
you better but what is actually said is
I desire I want that we be that I hope
that we can be better strangers that I
never really see you again I desire that
we be better strangers and lastly from
Macbeth it is a tale told by an idiot
full of sound and fury signifying
nothing so this would be an insult you
would use if someone's told this
ridiculous story maybe they've been
exaggerating a little bit too much and
you think it's just just a bad story you
would say it is a tale told by an idiot
so the person telling the story
you're an idiot full of sound and anger
in' and loudness but it actually means
nothing your story silly okay let's go
over these one more time to make sure we
have got them exactly right so
I'm going to say it and then you repeat
after me I am sick when I do look upon
thee obviously you're not being sick
when you look on me are you good villain
I have done thy mother thou art a boil a
plague saw a way you three-inch fool
I'll beat thee but I would infect my
hands ok keep repeating after me would
thou wert clean enough to spit on thine
face is not worth Sun burning thou art
as fat as butter I desired that we be
better strangers it is a tale told by an
idiot full of sound and fury signifying
nothing now if you want to learn how to
tell a really good story then watch my
video on how to tell a great story
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