Larry Gleason
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Act 1, scene 4
by William Shakespeare
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Shakespearean Monologues
Looking for a Shakespearean monologue? Try here.
Shakespearean Insult Kit
Source--http://web.mit.edu/dryfoo/Funny-pages/shakespeare-insult-kit.html
To impress your friends or just for the fun of it create a Shakespearean insult by combining one word from each of the three columns below, prefaced with "Thou":
As in, "Thou dankish rump-fed pignut!"
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3
| artless | base-court | apple-john |
| bawdy | bat-fowling | baggage |
| beslubbering | beef-witted | barnacle |
| bootless | beetle-headed | bladder |
| churlish | boil-brained | boar-pig |
| cockered | clapper-clawed | bugbear |
| clouted | clay-brained | bum-bailey |
| craven | common-kissing | canker-blossom |
| currish | crook-pated | clack-dish |
| dankish | dismal-dreaming | clotpole |
| paunchy | ill-breeding | lout |
| pribbling | ill-nurtured | maggot-pie |
| puking | knotty-pated | malt-worm |
| puny | milk-livered | mammet |
| qualling | motley-minded | measle |
| rank | onion-eyed | minnow |
| reeky | plume-plucked | miscreant |
| spongy | rude-growing | pignut |
| surly | rump-fed | puttock |
| tottering | shard-borne | pumpion |
| unmuzzled | sheep-biting | ratsbane |
| vain | spur-galled | scut |
| venomed | swag-bellied | skainsmate |
| villainous | tardy-gaited | strumpet |
| warped | tickle-brained | varlet |
| wayward | toad-spotted | vassal |
| weedy | unchin-snouted | whey-face |
| yeasty | weather-bitten | wagtail |
Shakespearean Sources
What did Shakespeare's language sound like?
Have a sneak peak and listen here—
http://originalpronunciation.com/illustrations/
Major References-Shakespeare
The Actor and His Text by Cecily Berry
(companion text by Cecily Berry: Voice And The Actor)
Speak The Speech! Shakespeare's Monologues Illuminated by Rhona Silverbush and Sami
Plotkin
Speaking Shakespeare by Patsy Rodenburg
Thinking Shakespeare by Barry Edelstein
Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary by Alexander Schmidt
Volume I A-M
Volume II N-Z
Every word defined and located, more than 50,000 quotations identified
Shakespeare's Words-A Glossary & Language Companion by David Crystal and Ben Crystal
http://www.shakespeareswords.com
Also check out their invaluable app: Shakespeare Pro for Apple and Android
Pronouncing Shakespeare’s Words (a guide from A to Zounds) by Dale F. Cole
Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Stephen Booth
Edited with analytic commentary
The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Helen Vendler
Detailed and erudite commentary
Essential Shakespeare Handbook by Leslie-Dunton Downer and Alan Riding
Shakespeare Quarterly by The Shakespeare Association of America
Periodical of essays referenced at The New York Public Library Main Branch on
42nd Street, NYC
Hopefully returning soon: The 154 Sonnets by Larry Gleason
All 154 Sonnets edited and spoken by Larry Gleason
Insight and Discussion-Books-Shakespeare
Shakespeare After All by Marjorie Garber
Shakespeare—The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
Shakespeare Comedies by Harold Bloom
Lectures on Shakespeare by W. H. Auden
Shakespeare’s Language by Frank Kermode
Shakespeare’s Wordplay by M. M. Mahood
Shakespeare’s Kings by John Julius Norwich
On Directing Shakespeare by Ralph Berry
Players of Shakespeare by Philip Brockbank
Playing Shakespeare by John Barton
Twelfth Night—A User’s Guide by Michael Pennington
I Am Hamlet by Steven Berkoff
Shakespeare’s Players by Judith Cook
Manners and Movements in Costume Plays by Isabel Chisman and Hester E. Raven-Hart
(may be out of print, check NYPL or Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library)
Shakespearean Tragedy (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth) by A. C. Bradley
Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale Critical Essays edited by Kenneth Muir
Internet-Shakespeare
http://www.freebooknotes.com/shakespeare-guide/ Ultimate Shakespeare Resource
Guide
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/ The complete works of William Shakespeare
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/shakespeare/folio/ The First Folio and Early Quartos of
William Shakespeare
http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/ Open Source Shakespeare attempts to be
the best free Web site containing Shakespeare's complete works.
Other Text Sources
www.dramabookshop.com The Drama Book Store, NYC
http://www.yourdictionary.com/ Various free dictionaries of all types
www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s Free e-texts
https://histography.io Absolutely BRILLIANT! World History of Everything in stunning graphics.
http://www.bibliomania.com Bibliomania has thousands of e-books, poems, articles,
short stories and plays all of which are absolutely free.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/rhetoricaldevicesinsound.htm Rhetorical Figures in
Sound is a compendium of 200+ brief audio (mp3) clips illustrating 40 different figures of
speech. Most of these figures were constructed, identified, and classified by Greek and
Roman teachers of rhetoric in the Classical period.
Looking for a Shakespearean monologue? Try here.
Shakespearean Insult Kit
Source--http://web.mit.edu/dryfoo/Funny-pages/shakespeare-insult-kit.html
To impress your friends or just for the fun of it create a Shakespearean insult by combining one word from each of the three columns below, prefaced with "Thou":
As in, "Thou dankish rump-fed pignut!"
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3
| artless | base-court | apple-john |
| bawdy | bat-fowling | baggage |
| beslubbering | beef-witted | barnacle |
| bootless | beetle-headed | bladder |
| churlish | boil-brained | boar-pig |
| cockered | clapper-clawed | bugbear |
| clouted | clay-brained | bum-bailey |
| craven | common-kissing | canker-blossom |
| currish | crook-pated | clack-dish |
| dankish | dismal-dreaming | clotpole |
| paunchy | ill-breeding | lout |
| pribbling | ill-nurtured | maggot-pie |
| puking | knotty-pated | malt-worm |
| puny | milk-livered | mammet |
| qualling | motley-minded | measle |
| rank | onion-eyed | minnow |
| reeky | plume-plucked | miscreant |
| spongy | rude-growing | pignut |
| surly | rump-fed | puttock |
| tottering | shard-borne | pumpion |
| unmuzzled | sheep-biting | ratsbane |
| vain | spur-galled | scut |
| venomed | swag-bellied | skainsmate |
| villainous | tardy-gaited | strumpet |
| warped | tickle-brained | varlet |
| wayward | toad-spotted | vassal |
| weedy | unchin-snouted | whey-face |
| yeasty | weather-bitten | wagtail |
Shakespearean Sources
What did Shakespeare's language sound like?
Have a sneak peak and listen here—
http://originalpronunciation.com/illustrations/
Major References-Shakespeare
The Actor and His Text by Cecily Berry
(companion text by Cecily Berry: Voice And The Actor)
Speak The Speech! Shakespeare's Monologues Illuminated by Rhona Silverbush and Sami
Plotkin
Speaking Shakespeare by Patsy Rodenburg
Thinking Shakespeare by Barry Edelstein
Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary by Alexander Schmidt
Volume I A-M
Volume II N-Z
Every word defined and located, more than 50,000 quotations identified
Shakespeare's Words-A Glossary & Language Companion by David Crystal and Ben Crystal
http://www.shakespeareswords.com
Also check out their invaluable app: Shakespeare Pro for Apple and Android
Pronouncing Shakespeare’s Words (a guide from A to Zounds) by Dale F. Cole
Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Stephen Booth
Edited with analytic commentary
The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Helen Vendler
Detailed and erudite commentary
Essential Shakespeare Handbook by Leslie-Dunton Downer and Alan Riding
Shakespeare Quarterly by The Shakespeare Association of America
Periodical of essays referenced at The New York Public Library Main Branch on
42nd Street, NYC
Hopefully returning soon: The 154 Sonnets by Larry Gleason
All 154 Sonnets edited and spoken by Larry Gleason
Insight and Discussion-Books-Shakespeare
Shakespeare After All by Marjorie Garber
Shakespeare—The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
Shakespeare Comedies by Harold Bloom
Lectures on Shakespeare by W. H. Auden
Shakespeare’s Language by Frank Kermode
Shakespeare’s Wordplay by M. M. Mahood
Shakespeare’s Kings by John Julius Norwich
On Directing Shakespeare by Ralph Berry
Players of Shakespeare by Philip Brockbank
Playing Shakespeare by John Barton
Twelfth Night—A User’s Guide by Michael Pennington
I Am Hamlet by Steven Berkoff
Shakespeare’s Players by Judith Cook
Manners and Movements in Costume Plays by Isabel Chisman and Hester E. Raven-Hart
(may be out of print, check NYPL or Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library)
Shakespearean Tragedy (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth) by A. C. Bradley
Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale Critical Essays edited by Kenneth Muir
Internet-Shakespeare
http://www.freebooknotes.com/shakespeare-guide/ Ultimate Shakespeare Resource
Guide
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/ The complete works of William Shakespeare
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/shakespeare/folio/ The First Folio and Early Quartos of
William Shakespeare
http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/ Open Source Shakespeare attempts to be
the best free Web site containing Shakespeare's complete works.
Other Text Sources
www.dramabookshop.com The Drama Book Store, NYC
http://www.yourdictionary.com/ Various free dictionaries of all types
www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s Free e-texts
https://histography.io Absolutely BRILLIANT! World History of Everything in stunning graphics.
http://www.bibliomania.com Bibliomania has thousands of e-books, poems, articles,
short stories and plays all of which are absolutely free.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/rhetoricaldevicesinsound.htm Rhetorical Figures in
Sound is a compendium of 200+ brief audio (mp3) clips illustrating 40 different figures of
speech. Most of these figures were constructed, identified, and classified by Greek and
Roman teachers of rhetoric in the Classical period.
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