Shakespearean Language

In Honors English, we are discussing how to read Shakespeare's work, because... it's really confusing. We read and analyzed a piece written by him where he was trying to "woo" a woman, and it made almost no sense, except for the fact that he was obsessed with this woman. For example, on of the lines in the text was "I will unrip my very bosom to you." To me, that seems a little extreme for being in love with someone. But it is very persuasive. Throughout the piece, Shakespeare uses his fancy words to impress and compliment his woman. It got really creepy after reading like 3 pages of that, but if you were that special lady, you may have thought differently. Obviously if a man said that to a woman now, she would probably run away. And never come back, ever.

Another page we looked at was an entire page of insults that Shakespeare threw around in his writing. Some of the phrases are pretty deep. For example, I came up with the combination,"pribbling, rump-fed maggot pie." There are probably over one thousand different combinations you could make on this list. Fishified, clapper-clawed popinjay. I just looked up popinjay- Its a woodpecker. Wow what an insult! Wart- necked, goatish pigeon egg. Wow.