Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit by Wayne F. Hill, Cynthia J. Ottchen
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Book Reviews of Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit
Book Review: HILIARIOUS!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book will is a sure fire way to get friends laughing. So buy it, you cofbeater!Book Review: A Book Of Bad Words
Summary: 5 Stars
This was the best book I ever bought!Book Review: Why use your own insults when Shakepeare's are so colorful?
Summary: 4 Stars
Based on the premise that "people NEED insults," Hill and Ottchen here offer a catalogue of every insult the immortal bard ever published. It must have been a tedious collection process, but the work was well worth it; as anyone even the slightest bit familiar with Shakespeare would expect, here in this isolated form his insults reveal themselves as powerful, picturesque, and scathing. The language and the diversity of emotion and expression will not fail to impress you. My one quibble with the collection is that is seems rudderless in its organization. If we are intended to use the language as our own, why does most of the book consist of a list of insults organized by PLAY (which is hard to use, and a bit tedious to read unless you are treating the book as a concordance for the play itself) rather than by type of insult or applicability? (The final section offers this, but it is VERY short). In terms of content and concept, though, this book makes for a great addition to a classroom, resource collection, letter-writing desktop, or to the Shakeseare-lover's coffee table -- a good gift for the scholar or bibliophile.
Book Review: Deceptive Title
Summary: 2 Stars
I thought this was going to have definitions of the various terms used by Shakespeare, but it only has lists and lists of insults. I admit many of the terms are somewhat straightforward, but I really was trying to find something that would "educate" me about how the insults came about and perhaps their meaning at that time. If you are looking for lists of insults, however, this is the book for you.
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