Insults by Shakespeare
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2024
- "You're a fishmonger!" By taking a closer look at Shakespeare's words--specifically his insults--we see why he is known as a master playwright whose works transcend time and appeal to audiences all over the world.
Lesson by April Gudenrath, narration by Juliet Blake, animation by TED-Ed.
View the full lesson: ed.ted.com/lessons/insults-by-...
"What, you egg?"
[He stabs him.]
That must be one of my favorite phrases
My favorite line is from romeo and Juliet, when Capulet says:
You are a saucy boy. Is't so indeed?
“He has killed me, mother.”
[dies]
You are a saucy boy
You're 3 year early for this meme
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed
yeah u wont do it cuz u'll lose
I can't believe they skipped Beatrice and Benedict
I've never heard that one before, but it is now my favourite Shakespeare quote.
Wow REKT
@@jhosepo1837 ?
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 'Cause thou hast no class.
Oooooo!!! Savage!!!
*hath
What tree of yew or oak hast thrown such shade?
ohhh... someone would lose their thumb today from chewing 😂
Thou dost infect mine eyes
Act IV, Scene II of Titus Andronicus
Demetrius: "Villain, what hast thou done?"
Aaron: "That which thou canst not undo."
Chiron: "Thou hast undone our mother."
Aaron: "Villain, I have done thy mother."
Miguel: "You fight like my sister!"
Tulio: "I fought your sister!"
+50TNCSA XD omg!
oh my god xD
+50TNCSA This Means He Shrewd Thy Mother? Oh! Thy Wit and Cunning Is Unmatched, Shakespeare!
I doth not know thyself for I thought this was incest. xD
You bite your thumb at me?! The outrage!
+1210Nique i DO bite my thumb at you, sir!
I fight too
Imagine Robert Deniro saying, "You talkin' to me?" and you'll get it.
+1210Nique I occasionally physically do this as an insult. People don't know whether to be insulted or not, and while figuring it out, I've shanked them in the kidney.
1210Nique I bite his ass
People cringe when they hear Shakespeare? I usually light up.
+Kira Suzuki Yeah, kind of my thoughts exactly - I came here because the video was about Shakespeare and yet the very first thing is about how cringe-worthy he is. What the hell?
+Kira Suzuki
I cringe about Romeo and Juliette, which I think is his worst play and really is why so many people are turned off by Shakespeare
But still, what sort of hack insults one of the greatest playwrights in history to start the video. And saying the Montagues and Capulets are /gangs/. What sort of twit is this. Seriously, this is a terrible TED-Ed video
FINALLY!
+Kira Suzuki I know, right? What kind of fustilarian cringes at Shakespeare?
+Kntrytnt I only cringe at the mention of Shakespeare in an English class. Other than that, I'm fine with his works.
Did you seriously make a vid about shakespearian insults and skip ALL of Mercutio's lines?? That guy was a witty badass!
Nichole Sinclair Yep, he's known as a jokester. I think they wanted to go in depth about a few insults, and leave the viewer curious to look more up themselves. #Mercutio
Nichole Sinclair Quite literally what I was going to comment on.
Mr. Meeseeks Ikr
Mr. Meeseeks OMG Thank You !! Right ! I said the same thing lol
Perhaps it was ‘cause he was a *grave* man.
I'm sorry but who the hell cringes when they hear Shakespeare?
I do. English class and Leonardo Dicaprio have a lot to answer for with Shakespeare.
i was just about to ask the same question
aprilblenk I don't cringe I just wonder what is happening
Sally Williams yeah
wolf pack winter it's kind of like you wanna fight cause square up 4:39
This video really makes Shakespeare's insults seem lame.
Tobarius Right? Eight Mile easily bests Shakespeare as presented here.
Thou are right
What, you egg?
@@williamshakespeare987 [He stabs him]
, said Tobarius.
Shakespeare's insults are the best insults. My English class started insulting each other in Shakespeare speak.
+TheLostWhisperer That sounds awesome! Nice going, your class. ;) :D
What, you egg?
_"Shakespeare speak"_
Naw ha ha ha ha
Same
My favorite insult is in Mid Summer Nights Dream: "Get lost, you dwarf, you tiny little weed, you scrap, you acorn!"
I love that one too
It would be Get lost thou dwarf thou tiny little weed, thou scrap, thou acorn!
@José Flores it means they are small, rubbish (useless) and as small as sea weed
what, you egg?
So basically it means that if you hear an insult in a shakespeare play, it means the characters don't like eachother, what a revelation
You're god damn right
Your comment was six years ago, but... I think you have it backwards. Such words were either invented or given a new meaning by Shakespeare--meaning, at that time, you wouldn't immediately know they were insults, but you would INFER that they were, based on the context, such as "the characters not liking each other."
And I believe it's the process of inferring as you hear it that makes it work, that makes it somehow "a revelation" to the audience. They were probably like, "Hey, that new word combination is actually pretty witty!"
Shakespeare actually helped me quite a lot.
He helps me to send curses and insults at my friends without them knowing anything XD
Silence you Mad-mustachio purple-hued malt-worms!!!
Now I understand 💀
Who cringes at Shakespeare? "why is he so popular?" - What a terrible way to start.
Lol
Kevin Maguire exactly
What a terrible comment. There are literally millions--possibly billions of people who go their entire lives hating/never understanding Shakespeare. It's clearly targeted for those people.
JazzyNym which is exactly who its for.
Americans without an education
Can’t believe you didn’t mention the line “Villain, I have done thy mother” from Titus Andronicus. it’s the original yo mama joke.
This is just my favorite insult of all time, not to mention by Shakespeare
"Go thou and fill another room in Hell."
I think people cringe at Shakespeare because they make us study it so young. It makes a lot more sense after you've had exposure to life outside a classroom. I find ironic that they teach Shakespeare as young as 12, but you can't watch a PG-13/R movie because of violence and sexual themes..... Shakespeare is all violence and sex themes 0_0
Funny that Tybalt's death got a spoiler alert but not Romeo and Juliet suicide together. All of those deaths are elemental to the story arc lol :)
+Terri Kim Well Shakespeare literally tells you that they are going to die in the first lines of the play, and everyone knows that they will, but not everyone knows Tybalt will.
+Terri Kim I'm pretty sure that everyone in the English speaking world knows that Romeo and Juliet die, but people don't usually know about Tybalt unless they have read or seen the play.
+Terri Kim In Denmark, we have to study at least one Shakespeare play in high school (in English, not translated). I personally found that to be a good time to be introduced to Shakespeare. Any earlier would have been too early.
+MeKsTeR330 I agree, I quote the first scene of this play, "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of starcrossed lovers take their life."
I think a lot of people cringe because as children they're exposed to Shakespeare via reading his plays like a book and then hearing their classmates, who probably have no idea what they're saying, read it out loud. They should be introduced to Shakespeare as his original audience was, by seeing the play. It's amazing how much more you understand.
When will Facebook finally be updated with a biting thumb thumbnail?
(*Bites Thumb at Dumb Comment*) NOBODY-USES-FACEBOOK ANYMORE!
People actually do.
Bakphoon g
Lol
I’m not sure
"Saucy boy" is my favourite insult from Shakespeare
what, you egg?
[he stabs him]
"You are a saucy boy."
"What, you egg?"
[He stabs him.]
I am a Fishmonger and I am offended.
+Lion Reichelt Offended am I and I am fishmonger.
***** ooooooooh. so like a butcher.
***** that doesn't quite make sense.
***** aaaaahhh. that's great.
@@nicolesong6199 Bites my thumb
i fall asleep at thine humor!
PopTartNeko LOL
😂
*thy humour
honey, a suggestion, if we are watching a Shakespeare video it's because we like him, don't start it by saying he's boring or "strangely" popular
“Honey” Eugh.
i'm probably going to bite my thumb the next time i want to insult someone without them knowing.
'But is he truly using Fishmonger as an insult? Or is it that Hamlet is genuinely mad?' - Every performing arts teacher ever
I like "No Fear Shakespeare" and "Shakespeare Made Easy." In both cases, the original Shakespeare's lines are on one page and a modern translation on the other. It surprised me that the modern translation is very good literature too. Anyway, if you find Shakespeare difficult to understand, these books are a great help.
My favorite insults are from "Much Ado About Nothing" especially the insults between Beatrice and Benedict. XP
+Charle Mange I love 'Much Ado About Nothing'! :)
thankyou!
Yes!!!
"do you flip the bird at me, sir?"
"well, I flip the bird!"
"but do you flip the bird at _me_ , sir?"
[quietly] "uhhh frick is the law on our side if i say yes?"
biting the thumb in those times were the equivalent of flipping off someone today.
And also, the example of insults in Romeo And Juliet wasn't that of a good one. Clearly, Mercutio's ones should have been illustrated, those were the real scenes that made the audiences, both back then and now, laugh.
A scene i really enjoyed would be the Nurse coming to find Romeo and meeting with Mercutio and Benvolio instead.
Then it's an insult parade.
My favorite insults are in a midsummer nights dream! The way Lysander speaks to Hermia, the way Demetrius speaks to Helena, and the way Lysander speaks to Demetrius
"Do thou amend thy face,
and I'll amend my life."
Henry IV, Part 1: Act 3, Scene 3.
A classicist would tell you that the word is pronounced hamarTEEa, not "hamarsha." Hamartia in Ancient Greek means error.
so you're also gonna pronounce psyche "pxi-e"? I studied the classics myself but also literary criticism, and harmatia is one of many terms (like katharsis) that have been used in criticism so often it started developing a new meaning on its own, in particular, the tragic mistake. That particular meaning came straight from Poetics.
Elvin Meng No, and I can't even make sense out of your attempt at a phonetic spelling anyway.
Psyche is a bit different from hamartia because psyche has made its way into daily usage and the mispronunciation is standardized. Hamartia is still a foreign word in English. If you check the pronunciation with an online dictionary it will tell you to pronounce it as an Ancient Greek word, precisely as I stated. www.google.com/#q=Hamartia+definition
Well that's ironic.
So Shakespeare is the diss king?
Pretty much, especially back in the day
0:15 "Why do we cringe when we hear 'Shakespeare'?". Well, I don't - and I know for a fact many don't.
Seen enough of this video. Next.
+Carmela Pedinni Personally, I don't like Shakespeare, but i definitely don't cringe at his name. Now I don't mean to start an argument with you so please note that I do respect Shakespeare for a brilliant writer of his time, but not in today's standards.
dinoshar! dinoshar! Don't worry, I don't come to RUclips to hate on people's view of the world. I undersant that many don't like him, and that is OK. The world goes round because we like different things, and that's absolutely great. I just think it's wrong on the video's part to generalize people and assume (or lead us to believe) that they think everyone cringes at his mention. To which I said I know many don't, but of course that means that some do too - and that's fine by me, so long as those aren't classified as "everybody". (:
You make an interesting point about today's standards: how would memorably imaginative, clever, and unique exaltation of language ever compare with our rap lyrics or blockbuster dialogue.
+RowdyPumper Or our scintillating online text exchanges...
Who's the intended audience of this video? Less than a minute in, I already feel my intelligence has been insulted.
Hamlet is hilarious, nearly every line he has is an insult, usually right to the person's face.
I've never had a problem understanding Shakespeare's wording. I occasionally have to Google a definition if I can't determine a meaning from context, but otherwise it's pretty straightforward stuff. However, I was taught to read from the King James Bible and to understand that style of language from the time I was six, so Shakespeare was a walk in the park for me as a high schooler studying Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Much Ado About Nothing.
Sometimes I get upset with myself because I think I am just a monolingual American; then I realize most Americans can't interpret English scripture, or Shakespeare, or the Founding Documents; and suddenly I don't so stupid and uneducated after all.
Ditto to that, my friend. Ditto.
same! I've been reading the KJV for as long as i can remember so when we did Macbeth in class i fell asleep when the teacher was still explaining how to understand the english.
In Tybalt's very first sentence, he utters a threat, an insult, and a pun! Tybalt is trying to provoke Benvolio into fighting by calling the Montagues "heartless hinds." On the surface, "heartless hinds" simply means "timid servants" (an insult in itself); however, if one looks closer and discovers the etymology of the word "hart" and "hind," one discovers an even deeper grating comment in Tybalt's pun. The word "heart" is a play on the word "hart" which means "a male deer." The word "hind" in addition to meaning "servant" can also mean "a female deer." Therefore, Tybalt is basically throwing the ultimate insult at the Montagues in that Tybalt is insulting their manhood: "What, art thou drawn among these man-less women?
Yeah, I found this analysis of Shakespearian insults quite lacking, although the explanation behind the fishmonger insult was news to me (although I already knew what a fishmonger was). I mean, if you know what "war-monger" means you can put two and two together.
You've literally gone and *copy and pasted this whole comment* from *Bret Doc Culpepper's* comment that is two years older than your comment. So you copied someone and now you're getting credit for *his* comment. 😡 not cool
I never cringed at Shakespeare. I don't see why anyone would.
Matt Vajgrt I get goose bumps if it is a good performance if that counts at all.
Uncultured swines would 😊 they dont want to admit they dont understand anything thus finding it hard to appreciate something (in this case, a form of speech) that they're not used to.
I was ten when u made this comment. Now I'm feeling cringey, wow am I living the past ?
@@simple-sandwich9957 Thanks for bringing me back. Now I have to cringe at myself.
From Daria - "At age six, I decide I don't need to talk to other kids ever again; my parents are the ones who get called into school. At 12, I decide to try out some Shakespearean insults on my teachers; my parents are the ones who get called into school. At 15, I start writing violent revenge fantasies just to get a reaction... "
Fish only smells bad if it is rotten.
naa
'Tis well thou art not fish!
Then you haven't smelled the horrible smell when you're cutting up a fish. It's like the smell of coins, blood and rust all combined, only much much stronger.
My favourite line in the Shakespeare playwright Macbeth, is when the murderer stabs a character and says "what, you egg?"
This video cracks me up because it basically translates Shakespeare's witty humor into today's slang
You know what, instead of listening and watching the video, I go down to read the comments and give myself entertainment xD
Shakespeare is not that uninteresting to today's youth. I would be happy if we got to read Shakespeare in my class even if I have read a great number of his works already for fun. I have never once cringed when reading Shakespeare and I would prefer his words to that of modern translations.
Mood atmosphere and relationships are all the best things you need for a play
I've never watched such a boring video about insults :-P
Ive never watched such a boring insult about a vide #REKT #420NOSCOPE
+Thingonometry - Ahahah right!
+Thingonometry - I've never watched such a boring reply to boring insult about a video. HA HAAAAAA I can tang my triumph, Bedswerver!
I've never seen such a boring comment section.
+Thingonometry - ... But how do you watch an insult?
'Thou painted maypole' (what hermia calls helena in amnd) has got to be one of my favourites. not only is it calling helena obnoxiously tall as hermia often gets mocked for being short but its also implying that helena thinks the whole world revolves around her
Hamlet-- Fishmonger makes even more sense when you realize that in Elizabethan times, a nunnery was a slang term for a brothel. So when Hamlet tells Ophelia to "Get the to a nunnery." he is not suggesting she become a nun. and then he turns around and calls her father a pimp.
No. You interpret wrong.
this video taught me that nothing kills a joke or insult more than explaining why its funny or an insult.
She's from England...not all British people sound the same.
First reply after 8years
@@billduck1341 improbability
I shall cement my legacy.
I love videos like this because in such a short amount of time, you learn something new and it's presented in an entertaining enough manner that you want to keep watching. I HATED reading Halmet in High School. It was so boring. But this video gives me a bit more respect for Shakespeare, I must admit.
I never cringe when I hear Shakespeare even if I get a little confused but I don't care I love words, especially his.
"Do you show that finger at me, sir?"
"Yes, I do show that finger at you, sir."
"Do you show that finger at 𝘮𝘦, sir?"
I shall bite my thumb at my English teacher and see how she reacts.
Did you know that Shakespeare invented the word swag.
My favourite Shakespeare's quote (and insult) is "What, you egg?"...so poetic
i watched ALL of THAT.... someone needs to give me a gold star.
"words are very unnecessary.." thumbs up if you know the song reference
+Skye ID That's because "they can only do harm."
My favorite of Shakespeare's insults is that one play where the villain calls mankind a miserable pile of secrets.
I love the old and longer Ted Ed intro
"Tallow-faced" and "harpy" are the best well-known that I remember. As well as "bite my thumb" being the equivalent to the middle finger.
"they really are trying to tell you something" NOOOOOO YOU DONT SAY
Is it late that I'm going to read Romeo &juliet in 9th grade ?
no that's normal
snow white i taught some grade 9 romeo and juliet last week
Chingying V. Li I dont know
sounds about right to me
[kicks down door]
[flips table]
y o u a r e a s a u c y b o y
The vlogbrother's video titled "How nedfighters drop insults" is on the same subject, and, in my opinion, contains better insults. But I still love Ted Ed!
"Biting your tumb" was actually a term that Shakespeare tried to make a thing. And failed.
How we insult people in the past:
Thou dare biting thumbs at I,
such a heartless hind thou art
Thou art mere fishmonger
lol ;)
It's ages old. It goes back even farther than that.
For some reason I wish this was longer.
These lessons sound more like Captain Obvious to me. (that's an insult. in case you didn't get it)
i remember first reading shakespear.. it's actually not as scary as it seems.. i didnt understood alot of it, but most people forget this stuff was written centuries ago. of course people talked differently. they used words that we no longer use, and on top of that, had a vocabulary practically ten times smaller then the average american.
once you learn some of the slang, and some of the actions they do that signify something, its actually not very hard to understand
TED-Ed intro is very satisfying.
I know!
[Capulet]
You are a saucy boy
Narration by Juliet Blake.... illuminati confirmed.
why?
that doesn't really explain anything to me
+Austin Stoddard Oh, I'm the only one who thought this was a reference to William Blake?
+Fatima Ammar Juliet Capulet + William Blake = Juliet Blake
Austin Stoddard Quirky xD
Fishmonger means someone who sells fish.
thanks for the clarification ... and here i always thought it was someone who mongers fish for a living
A normal person:
Mom I'm hungry
Shakespeare:
let it be clear to the birth giver that my stomach is made of nothing
Man: *Bites his thumb*
Shakespeare: Looks like it is time to be....
*tRiGgErEd*
You are a saucy boy
Cut is another insult. Antonio from the Merchant of Venice (he is the merchant) uses that term against Shylock because he is a Jew.
Is it not cur?
No, I meant cur, it was a mistake.
Yes, you got it right. That's what I meant to say. Oops. I feel sorry for Shylock though.
Wonderful interpretations! The thumb biting really intrigued me!
My personal favorite from Romeo and Juliet was Lord Capulet calling Tybalt a saucy boy.
Shakespeare is savage af
Someone from now timetravels and has a nervous tick and gets themself killed
Get thee to a nunnery!
One of my favorite quotes from Hamlet.
you people are doing a fabulous work i love this channel
...I thought everybody loved Shakespeare
I expected something better from this video.
I could like a full video about each and every insults by Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream has the best insults ever I think: "You juggler, you cankerblossom! You thief of love!"
Dost thou even hoist, brethren?
Mishka dost THOU even hoist, brethren?
Bloody Rose '^' ...that's what I said
Mishka Do you even lift, bro?
good SUCC Not really....
6:14 Did anyone else notice the narrators name is Juliet spelled the way Shakespeare spells it? Like if u noticed
Life-long professional Shakespearean actor here, and I must say you chose a couple of the lamest examples of Shakespeare’s insults. He was an absolute savage!
Shakespeare is indeed a humanoid spear thou pierce through thy reader thee shakes thyself from core
I'm not native English speakers... what is Thy and Thee? what's the difference?
Shafwan Dito I think thy is the formal version of you and thee is the informal one or vice versa my mother language is Spanish but I'm sure it was something like that
Shafwan Dito honestly you dont need to know as those people stopped using thy and thee in everyday speech centuries ago
saarah0006 but Thee and thy is still in UK national anthem
true thats why I said everyday speech
saarah0006 BUT WHAT ARE THE MEANING?
My favourite part of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' so far is in act 1, scene 1.
Demetrius: "Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield thy crazed title to my certain right."
Lysander: "You have her father's love, Demetrius; let me have Hermia's: do you marry him."
"Shakespeare does use a lot of words"
-ted-ed, 2012
My favourite Shakespeare insult is :"what you egg!" *Macbeth Stabs a fifteen yr old
How could you make a video about the richness of words, especially insults, so devoid of entertainment value??? You don't carry the spirit of Shakespeare in your presentation at all!
if you're trying to sell Shakespeare you've failed. at least give examples of some of his good insults.