Books - Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit

eShop USA > Books > Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit

Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit

by: Wayne F. Hill

List Price: $12.95

Our Price: $10.36

You Save: $2.59 (20%)

71 used from $0.01
28 Thirdparty New from $3.99

Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours used

Click here for lowest price offers

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.33
EAN: 9780517885390
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0517885395
Label: Three Rivers Press
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishUnknownEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: October 03, 1995
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date: October 03, 1995
Studio: Three Rivers Press

Features:

ISBN13: 9780517885390
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Related Items:

Editorial Review:The 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.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Most useful volume of ancilliary literature ever written
LitCrit doesn't generally impress me much; I'm not sure why I should subsidize people who feel this is in the benefit of society. I don't normally have much time for folks who meticulously catalog things out of fiction; i.e. exhaustive lists of names of people in "The Iliad", the studies of Tolkien's constructed languages, the trivia of Harry Potter, etc. "Shakespeare's Insults" however...

With insults cataloged by play and application, this book serves several ends. Should a child ... Read More

Rating:

- Amazing resource
Shakespeare's Insults is a thoroughly researched and well-presented documentation of The Bard's inventive invective. It's an invaluable resource for those who teach or perform Shakespeare. I present a very popular workshop called "Thy Mother," teaching people how to create Shakespearean insults. This book makes it much easier and, in fact, I use it as a prize for the winning teams of insulters. Highly recommended.

Rating:

- Superior Drama Insults
This book was purchased as a gift for a Speech and Drama college student.
These kids really enjoy the wit Shakespeare wrote. Knowing which insult to use for appropriate moments is a blast for them!

Rating:

- Deceptive Title
I thought this was going to have definitions of the various terms used by Shakespeare, but it only has lists and lists of insults. I admit many of the terms are somewhat straightforward, but I really was trying to find something that would "educate" me about how the insults came about and perhaps their meaning at that time. If you are looking for lists of insults, however, this is the book for you.

Rating:

- Excellent!
This is a fabulous little book that every high school English teacher should have in their arsenal. When the jock in the back row groans when you ask him to read aloud from Hamlet, call him a burly-boned clown. When the popular kid in the front row claims to have forgotten to read the assigned pages from Macbeth, call him Triton of the minnows. Okay, maybe don't, but using it to help you find the curses and insults within the texts, and therefore to help you point them out to your students, will ... Read More

Related Categories: