Post on 23-Feb-2016
description
On your PINK post-it: Who likes
Shakespeare?
On your GREEN post-it: Why not?
On your PURPLE post- Why?
LO: To feel more comfortable with Shakespeare's language AND work with Elizabethan sentence
structure
By the end of the lesson you will have:Level 5explore
Shakespearean language by constructing
insults
Level 6given detailed explanations of why unfamiliar words are used and the effects it has on the
reader.
Level 7precisely
analysed the use of unusual
words and explained the overall effects on the reader.
Shakespearean Insults10/05/12
Introducing Shakespeare
Greetings from me, The Bard, England’s greatest poet and storyteller. You thought I was just the
greatest writer? I am also the rudest man in England!
Language in Action: Horrible Histories
What are thecharacters doing? What’s happening in the scene?How do the character’s body movements and facial expressions create meaning alongside the words?
WATCH THIS!How many of the 62 Insults can you
write down?
TASKUse the Shakespeare Insult Kit
Combine one word or phrase from each columns and add “Thou” to the beginning.
“Thou ruttish, doghearted foot licker”
Insult Alley!
By my trowth, thou dost make
the millstone seem as a
feather what widst thy lard-bloated footfall
TASK 2TRANSLATE THIS!
Thy vile canker-blossom’d
countenance curdles milk and
sours beer.
Thy vile canker-blossom'd countenance curdles milk and sours beer.
TRANSLATE THIS!
In sooth, thy dank cavernous
tooth-hole consumes all
truth and reason!
ABRAHAM : Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? SAMPSON: I do bite my thumb, sir.
ABRAHAM: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
Watch the opening scene from Romeo and
Juliet
They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain,A mere anatomy, a mountebank,A threadbare juggler, and a fortune-teller,A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch,A living-dead man. (A Comedy of Errors, 5.1.239)
Read the description and create an image of Doctor Pinch
PLENARY
HomeworkSpend 30 minutes translating the Shakespearean insults from your
sheet.