Have you ever been angry or frustrated with another person Have you ever been angry or frustrated with another person? Have you ever wished you could adequately express your frustration towards this person?

If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here...with a big ribbon on his head! And I want to look him straight in the eye, and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, hopeless, heartless, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey dung he is! ~Clark W. Griswold

Shakespearean Insults

Well, in the video Shakespeare in Our Time, you heard that William Shakespeare was the master of insults. Here are a few of his insults I find entertaining!

I do desire we may be better strangers. As You Like It (3.2.248)

They lie deadly that tell you you have good faces. Coriolanus (2. 1

More of your conversation would infect my brain. Coriolanus (2.1.91)

Frailty, thy name is woman! Hamlet (1.2.147)

They have a plentiful lack of wit. Hamlet (2.2.198)

I wonder that you will still be talking. Nobody marks you I wonder that you will still be talking. Nobody marks you. Much Ado About Nothing (1.1.104)

I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster! The Tempest (2.2.155)

knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave […], one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel [dog]: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition. King Lear (2.2.14-24)

Your mission… Using the Shakespearean Insult handout, create 10 Shakespearean insults. Pair up with a partner. Using the 20 insults you and your partner came up with, write a 30-line skit.

Your skit must… Have 2 characters Depict a disagreement or fight where the characters insult each other. Come up with a back story for your skit. Otherwise, if you and your partner are just calling each other names, it gets super boring. (Examples) Include all 20 of your insults.

(Continued) Your skit must… Be set in a school appropriate setting Be written in as close to Shakespearean English as you can get (tips on back of the Insult handout) You will be performing these skits in front of the class, so think about some readily available props you could use to aid your performance. Also, you will hand in your scripts after you perform, so make them easy to read!

On the day of presentations, you will turn in the following: 10 Shakespearean Insult lines (packet). A copy of your typed script. This should be labeled with the correct heading and “script” at the top. Your back story. Please label this “back story” We begin Monday, January 10