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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: In Class Warm Ups (All Online): Activity 2: Insults

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Romeo & Juliet:

Insults

Insult Station Instructions:

1.      Watch the video on Shakespearean Insults

2.      Explore the Shakespeare Insult Generator.  After discovering a few insults, pick one that you like and write it down below.

3.      Then, if you do not know the meaning of the words in your favorite insult, search out their meaning in google or dictionary.com. Record the meaning in the chart below.

4.      Now try out your insult—slander a group member and have a Shakespearean verbal sparring match.

5.      Reflect and record your thinking. Why do you like your insult?  When would you use it?

Insults Video

Insults from Romeo and Juliet

Draw thy tool. My naked weapon is out.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 1. 1

Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 1. 1

He's a man of wax.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 1. 3

Small grey-coated gnat.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 1, 4

Not half so big as a round little worm.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 1. 4

The children of an idle brain, 
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air
And more inconstant than the wind.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 1. 4

You kiss by th' book.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 1. 5

He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not:
The ape is dead.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 2. 1

Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 2. 1

She speaks, yet she says nothing.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 2. 2

Young men's love then lies
Not truly in their hearts but in their eyes.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 2. 3

These strange flies, these fashion-mongers, these 'pardon-me's'.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 2. 4

I will bite thee by the ear for that jest.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 2. 4

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 2. 4

Scurvy knave! I am none of his flirt-gills [loose women], I am none of his skains-mates [cut-throat companions].
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 2. 4

She, good soul, had as lief see a toad, a very toad, as see him.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 2. 4

He is not the flower of courtesy.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 2. 5

You rat-catcher.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 3. 1

They have made worms' meat of me.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 3. 1

What devil art thou that dost torment me thus.
This torture should be roar'd in dismal hell.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 3. 2

O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face.
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 3. 2

Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical,
Dove-feather'd raven, wolvish-ravening lamb.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 3. 2

Thou cut'st my head off with a golden axe
And smilest upon the stroke that murders me.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 3. 3

A wretched puling fool, a whining mammet.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 3. 5

Hang! Beg! Starve! Die in the streets.
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 3. 5