Shakespeare popularized, if not invented, the use of “verbing” nouns. Example (excerpt from Julius Cesear): “The wild disguise has almost anticked us all.”  The word “anticked” is not actually a verb. The normal word is “antick,” a synonym for fool. There is no actual word “anticked.”

Individual Words contributed by William Shakespeare: accommodation aerial amazement apostrophe assassination auspicious baseless bloody bump castigate changeful clangor control (noun) countless courtship critic critical dexterously dishearten dislocate dwindle eventful exposure fitful frugal generous gloomy gnarled hurry impartial inauspicious indistinguishable invulnerable lapse laughable lonely majestic misplaced monumental multitudinous obscene palmy perusal pious premeditated radiance reliance road sanctimonious seamy sportive submerge suspicious

Shakespeare used a variety of “insults” in his play. -We say “insults” because, while they were meant offensive back when they were written, now with our language these words do not seem offensive at all. Some examples of Shakespearean insults are on the next slides.

Shakespearean Insult Chart Column 1Column 2Column 3 artless base-court apple-john bawdy bat-fowling baggage beslubbering beef-witted barnacle bootless beetle-headed bladder churlish boil-brained boar-pig cockered clapper-clawed bugbear clouted clay-brained bum-bailey craven common-kissing canker-blossom currish crook-pated clack-dish dankish dismal-dreaming clotpole dissembling dizzy-eyed coxcomb droning doghearted codpiece errant dread-bolted death-token fawning earth-vexing dewberry Fobbing elf-skinned Flap-dragon Froward fat-kidneyed flax-wench frothy Fen-sucked flirt-gill gleeking flap-mouthed foot-licker goatish fly-bitten fustilarian gorbellied folly-fallen giglet Impertinent fool-born gudgeon Infectious full-gorged haggard Jarring guts-griping harpy USE: Take any word from each of the three columns, and combine them in order, prefacing the phrase with “thou art a” For example, “Thou art a droning clay-brained harpy.”

 There's no goodness in thy face.  William Shakespeare  Anthony and Cleopatra, 2. 5   Like the toad, ugly and venomous.  William Shakespeare  As You Like It, 2. 1   You should answer very well to a whipping.  William Shakespeare  All's Well That Ends Well, 2. 2   France is a dog-hole. William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well, 2. 3  I saw the man today, if man he be. William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well 5. 3  She does abuse to our ears. William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well, 5. 3  Vicious mole of nature. William Shakespeare Hamlet, 1. 4  I took thee for thy better. William Shakespeare Hamlet, 3. 4  Think, and die. William Shakespeare Anthony and Cleopatra,  Thou cruel, ingrateful, savage and inhuman creature. William Shakespeare Henry V, 2. 2  These are insults used in various plays written by Shakespeare.

Along with popularizing insults and adding new things to his language, Shakespeare also invented certain phrases that have become very popular today. -Although Shakespeare did not invent all of these phrases, he did popularize the use of many of them.

All that glitters Is not gold Break the ice Catch a cold Clothes make the man Elbowroom Fancy-free Flaming youth Frailty, thy name is woman! Give the devil his due Green eyed monster Heart of gold Hot-blooded It smells to heaven It's Greek to me Lackluster Leapfrog Livelong day Method in his madness Mind's eye Ministering angel More sinned against than sinning One fell swoop Pitched battle Primrose path The course of true love never did run smooth The lady doth protest too much The milk of human kindness Wear one's heart on one's sleeve

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. The wheel is come full circle. Hell is empty and all the devils are here. Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless! But men are men; the best sometimes forget. To be, or not to be: that is the question Men of few words are the best men The common curse of mankind, - folly and ignorance Out of the jaws of death Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble Fair is foul, and foul is fair I 'll not budge an inch

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