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Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit
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Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit Paperback - 1995 - 1st Edition

by Hill, Wayne F

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"He has not so much brain as ear wax" (Troilus and Cressida). What can one say to the croaking ravens, whoreson jacknapes, shallow jesters, and dull and muddy-mottled rascals of the world? Culled from 38 plays, here are the best 5,000 of the bard's glorious invective, arranged by play, in order of appearance, with helpful act and line numbers for easy reference.

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  • Title Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit
  • Author Hill, Wayne F
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition UsedGood
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY), New York
  • Date 1995-10-03
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 31UI5600AA1B_ns
  • ISBN 9780517885390 / 0517885395
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.03 x 5.19 x 0.76 in (20.40 x 13.18 x 1.93 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Quotations, English, Shakespeare, William - Quotations
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95030760
  • Dewey Decimal Code 822.33

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First line

SPEAK, breathe, discuss, brief, short, quick, snap! Be ready when the need arises.

From the jacket flap

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.

About the author

WAYNE F. HILL and CYNTHIA J. TTCHEN are American students who live and study in Cambridge, England. This is their first book.

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