Transcript SHAKESPEARE*s LANGUAGE

SHAKESPEARE’s
LANGUAGE
HE TALKS A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY than we
do today!
Sayings We have Willie to
thank for!!
O KNOCK KNOCK! Who’s There?
O Heart of Gold
O So-so
O Fight Fire with Fire
O Love is Blind
O Makes your hair stand on end
O A Piece of Work
O Sent him packing
2nd Person Familiar and Verb Inflections
O Modern in English has dropped a set of
pronouns and verbs called “familiar” or thee
and thou forms. We used to use these among
close friends and family and to children,
inferiors, animals, and inanimate objects.
O They were still around in Shakespeare’s day.
Familiar Pronouns
Singular Pronouns
Plural Pronouns
1st
2nd
3rd
1st
2nd
3rd
SUBJECT
I
Thou
He/she/it
We
Ye
They
Object
Me
Thee
Him/her/it
Us
You
Them
Possessi
ve
adjective
My
*mine
Thy
*thine
His/her/its
Our
Your
Their
Possessi
ve
Noun
Mine
Thine
his/her/its
Ours
Yours
theirs
Verb Inflections
O 2nd Person familiar-
-Adds the end –est, -’st, or st
EXAMPLE: thou givest, thou sing’st
O Some irregular verbs
PRESENT: you are have
will
can shall
do
PRESENT: thou art hast
wilt
canst shalt
dost
PAST: thou
wast hadst wouldst couldst shouldst didst
O Third Person Singular
Often substitutes –th for –s
Example: she giveth (for she gives)
Decode the following with your group
1. Hippolyta, I wooed thee with my sword
And won thy love doing thee injuries…
2. Stand forth, Demetrius – My noble lord,
This man hath my consent to marry her.
3. If thou lovest me, then
steal forth thy father’s house tomorrow night..
4. How now spirit? Whither wander you?
5. The King doth keep his revels here tonight,
Take heed the Queen come not within his
sight…
Answers
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Hippolyta, I courted you with my sword in
battle, and won your love doing you harm…
Come forward, Demetrius – My good lord, this
man has my permission to marry her.
If you love me, then sneak out of your father’s
house tomorrow night…
How are you spirit? Where are you going?
The king does have his party here tonight,
make sure the Queen stay away and out of his
sight…
There are some other strange
words and phrases in
Shakespeare, where do I look
them up?
O Shakspeare Lexicon – Alexander Schmidt’s
O English Dictionary
Steps to Decoding Shakespeare
Scenes and Monologues
O Read scene synopsis from Spark Notes
O Read Scene
O Decode Words and Phrases using the
Shakespeare Lexicon or Dictionary
O If you STILL cannot decode everything, look
at No Fear Shakespeare
JULIET: Ay me!
ROMEO:
She speaks,
O speak again bright angel, for thou art
As glorious to this night being o’er my head,
As is a winged messenger of heaven
Unto the white-upturned wond’ring eyes
Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him,
When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds,
And sails upon the bosom of the air.
JULIET: O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father, and refuse thy name.
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
ROMEO: Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
JULIET: ‘Tis but thy name that is mine enemy.
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot,
Nor arm nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O be some other name.
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo doff thy name which is no part of thee,
Take all myself.
O Watch Scene RSC Shaksepeare Company
Balcony Scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHoaPLO6
Zd8
*Did you understand what’s going on? And the
emotions?
Decode the following
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/twelfthnight/section7.rhtml
Give me leave, beseech you. I did send,
After the last enchantment you did here,
A ring in chase of you. So did I abuse
Myself, my servant, and, I fear me, you:
Under your hard construction must I sit,
To force that on you, in a shameful cunning
Which you knew none of yours. What might you think?
Have you not set mine honor at the stake,
And baited it with all the unmuzzled thoughts
That tyrannous heart can think? To one of your receiving
Enough is shown. A cypress, not a bosom,
Hides my heart. So, let me hear you speak.
Combine one word from each of the three columns
below, prefaced with "Thou":
Column 1
artless
bawdy
beslubbering
bootless
cockered
clouted
craven
currish
droning
fawning
fobbing
gleeking
gorbellied
Column 2
Column 3
base-court
apple-john
bat-fowling
baggage
beef-witted
barnacle
beetle-headed
bladder
clapper-clawed bugbear
clay-brained
bum-bailey
common-kissing canker-blossom
crook-pated
clack-dish
doghearted
codpiece
earth-vexing
dewberry
elf-skinned
flap-dragon
flap-mouthed
foot-licker
folly-fallen
giglet
Write a Scene with a partner
O Each person must say an insult
O Create a scene where each person says an
O
O
O
O
insult
Make sure there is a clear beginning,
middle, and end
No violence
Use your 2nd person familiar and verb
inflections
5-8 lines