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Insults by Shakespeare

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"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.
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  • "What, you egg?" [He stabs him.]

    @veektorgonzales8009@veektorgonzales80097 жыл бұрын

    • That must be one of my favorite phrases

      @vulfura@vulfura4 жыл бұрын

    • My favorite line is from romeo and Juliet, when Capulet says: You are a saucy boy. Is't so indeed?

      @nickghaffarian5707@nickghaffarian57074 жыл бұрын

    • “He has killed me, mother.” [dies]

      @theleftuprightatsoldierfield@theleftuprightatsoldierfield4 жыл бұрын

    • You are a saucy boy

      @microska2656@microska26564 жыл бұрын

    • You're 3 year early for this meme

      @Crystal23@Crystal234 жыл бұрын

  • I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed

    @lucydugdale8787@lucydugdale87878 жыл бұрын

    • yeah u wont do it cuz u'll lose

      @caterpillow@caterpillow4 жыл бұрын

    • I can't believe they skipped Beatrice and Benedict

      @jasleenkaur8887@jasleenkaur88874 жыл бұрын

    • I've never heard that one before, but it is now my favourite Shakespeare quote.

      @DrRank@DrRank4 жыл бұрын

    • Wow REKT

      @arnavrawat9864@arnavrawat98644 жыл бұрын

    • @@jhosepo1837 ?

      @caterpillow@caterpillow4 жыл бұрын

  • Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 'Cause thou hast no class.

    @miaandrade4122@miaandrade41228 жыл бұрын

    • Oooooo!!! Savage!!!

      @keneishapinto9896@keneishapinto98967 жыл бұрын

    • *hath

      @marmorealcandors@marmorealcandors6 жыл бұрын

    • What tree of yew or oak hast thrown such shade?

      @fallingcrane1986@fallingcrane19866 жыл бұрын

    • ohhh... someone would lose their thumb today from chewing 😂

      @oddpotato4038@oddpotato40385 жыл бұрын

    • Thou dost infect mine eyes

      @mabelisnotstraight@mabelisnotstraight5 жыл бұрын

  • You bite your thumb at me?! The outrage!

    @smol_chilli_pepper@smol_chilli_pepper8 жыл бұрын

    • +1210Nique i DO bite my thumb at you, sir!

      @alicja_5864@alicja_58648 жыл бұрын

    • I fight too

      @lochlannkingz5279@lochlannkingz52798 жыл бұрын

    • Imagine Robert Deniro saying, "You talkin' to me?" and you'll get it.

      @RowdyPumper@RowdyPumper8 жыл бұрын

    • +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.

      @BeepingMetal@BeepingMetal8 жыл бұрын

    • 1210Nique I bite his ass

      @kingtagao9307@kingtagao93077 жыл бұрын

  • 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."

    @50TNCSA@50TNCSA8 жыл бұрын

    • Miguel: "You fight like my sister!" Tulio: "I fought your sister!"

      @joshuahadams@joshuahadams8 жыл бұрын

    • +50TNCSA XD omg!

      @TDH12@TDH128 жыл бұрын

    • oh my god xD

      @charmagne2102@charmagne21028 жыл бұрын

    • +50TNCSA This Means He Shrewd Thy Mother? Oh! Thy Wit and Cunning Is Unmatched, Shakespeare!

      @jim4671@jim46718 жыл бұрын

    • I doth not know thyself for I thought this was incest. xD

      @the07pattyvonne@the07pattyvonne8 жыл бұрын

  • Did you seriously make a vid about shakespearian insults and skip ALL of Mercutio's lines?? That guy was a witty badass!

    @iLOVEpicklesBRO28@iLOVEpicklesBRO289 жыл бұрын

    • 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

      @dominicguye8058@dominicguye80589 жыл бұрын

    • Nichole Sinclair Quite literally what I was going to comment on.

      @skynightstars321@skynightstars3219 жыл бұрын

    • Mr. Meeseeks Ikr

      @firaspotter8556@firaspotter85567 жыл бұрын

    • Mr. Meeseeks OMG Thank You !! Right ! I said the same thing lol

      @egyptjohnson8076@egyptjohnson80766 жыл бұрын

    • Perhaps it was ‘cause he was a *grave* man.

      @fallingcrane1986@fallingcrane19866 жыл бұрын

  • People cringe when they hear Shakespeare? I usually light up.

    @Sephajinami@Sephajinami8 жыл бұрын

    • +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?

      @rhemorigher@rhemorigher8 жыл бұрын

    • +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

      @ducttapeanddreams@ducttapeanddreams8 жыл бұрын

    • FINALLY!

      @willowjade1907@willowjade19078 жыл бұрын

    • +Kira Suzuki I know, right? What kind of fustilarian cringes at Shakespeare?

      @Kntrytnt@Kntrytnt8 жыл бұрын

    • +Kntrytnt I only cringe at the mention of Shakespeare in an English class. Other than that, I'm fine with his works.

      @EliteAwesomeness@EliteAwesomeness8 жыл бұрын

  • I'm sorry but who the hell cringes when they hear Shakespeare?

    @aprilblenk@aprilblenk7 жыл бұрын

    • I do. English class and Leonardo Dicaprio have a lot to answer for with Shakespeare.

      @lewisirwin5363@lewisirwin53637 жыл бұрын

    • i was just about to ask the same question

      @ayahassan9674@ayahassan96747 жыл бұрын

    • aprilblenk I don't cringe I just wonder what is happening

      @darksidecola4529@darksidecola45297 жыл бұрын

    • Sally Williams yeah

      @mukundabodapati9222@mukundabodapati92227 жыл бұрын

    • wolf pack winter it's kind of like you wanna fight cause square up 4:39

      @nick-fk9sk@nick-fk9sk7 жыл бұрын

  • Shakespeare's insults are the best insults. My English class started insulting each other in Shakespeare speak.

    @Dappledvine@Dappledvine9 жыл бұрын

    • +TheLostWhisperer That sounds awesome! Nice going, your class. ;) :D

      @terribletallrus6520@terribletallrus65208 жыл бұрын

    • What, you egg?

      @frostymarbles2655@frostymarbles26554 жыл бұрын

    • _"Shakespeare speak"_

      @mrflip-flop3198@mrflip-flop31983 жыл бұрын

    • Naw ha ha ha ha

      @brazenRenascent@brazenRenascent3 жыл бұрын

    • Same

      @vecipheragain@vecipheragain3 жыл бұрын

  • My favorite insult is in Mid Summer Nights Dream: "Get lost, you dwarf, you tiny little weed, you scrap, you acorn!"

    @ellokittyca@ellokittyca7 жыл бұрын

    • I love that one too

      @ultimatebishoujo29@ultimatebishoujo293 жыл бұрын

    • It would be Get lost thou dwarf thou tiny little weed, thou scrap, thou acorn!

      @carleee4099@carleee40992 жыл бұрын

    • @José Flores it means they are small, rubbish (useless) and as small as sea weed

      @carleee4099@carleee40992 жыл бұрын

    • what, you egg?

      @preronasengupta163@preronasengupta1632 жыл бұрын

  • This video really makes Shakespeare's insults seem lame.

    @Tobarius@Tobarius9 жыл бұрын

    • Tobarius Right? Eight Mile easily bests Shakespeare as presented here.

      @n.a.larson9161@n.a.larson91616 жыл бұрын

    • Thou are right

      @saimabbas3363@saimabbas33634 жыл бұрын

    • What, you egg?

      @williamshakespeare987@williamshakespeare9873 жыл бұрын

    • @@williamshakespeare987 [He stabs him]

      @minignoux4566@minignoux45662 жыл бұрын

    • , said Tobarius.

      @apollonius7227@apollonius72272 жыл бұрын

  • Shakespeare actually helped me quite a lot. He helps me to send curses and insults at my friends without them knowing anything XD

    @christopherhalim2801@christopherhalim28018 жыл бұрын

    • Silence you Mad-mustachio purple-hued malt-worms!!!

      @verdenballnonotthatonethev9516@verdenballnonotthatonethev95166 жыл бұрын

    • Now I understand 💀

      @Black_Trojan@Black_Trojan Жыл бұрын

  • 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

    @oRitchinal@oRitchinal7 жыл бұрын

    • You're god damn right

      @Vodka6329@Vodka6329 Жыл бұрын

    • 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!"

      @miholancholy@miholancholy8 ай бұрын

  • 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.

    @kimmy2631@kimmy26314 жыл бұрын

  • 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 :)

    @woihjsd@woihjsd8 жыл бұрын

    • +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.

      @MeKsTeR330@MeKsTeR3308 жыл бұрын

    • +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.

      @DPlough@DPlough8 жыл бұрын

    • +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.

      @ihategoogle2382@ihategoogle23828 жыл бұрын

    • +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."

      @helloworld2848@helloworld28488 жыл бұрын

    • 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.

      @Concetta20@Concetta208 жыл бұрын

  • When will Facebook finally be updated with a biting thumb thumbnail?

    @Leto85@Leto858 жыл бұрын

    • (*Bites Thumb at Dumb Comment*) NOBODY-USES-FACEBOOK ANYMORE!

      @jim4671@jim46718 жыл бұрын

    • People actually do.

      @dustroier7310@dustroier73108 жыл бұрын

    • Bakphoon g

      @freddiessecond3413@freddiessecond34137 жыл бұрын

    • Lol

      @koalapaint@koalapaint7 жыл бұрын

    • I’m not sure

      @ultimatebishoujo29@ultimatebishoujo293 жыл бұрын

  • This is just my favorite insult of all time, not to mention by Shakespeare "Go thou and fill another room in Hell."

    @pocky2896@pocky28967 жыл бұрын

  • Who cringes at Shakespeare? "why is he so popular?" - What a terrible way to start.

    @kevinkraft6804@kevinkraft68048 жыл бұрын

    • Lol

      @HisMajesty.@HisMajesty.7 жыл бұрын

    • Kevin Maguire exactly

      @2rhine@2rhine7 жыл бұрын

    • 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@JazzyNym7 жыл бұрын

    • JazzyNym which is exactly who its for.

      @flyguyry1@flyguyry17 жыл бұрын

    • Americans without an education

      @user-ub8oi7oh3r@user-ub8oi7oh3r4 жыл бұрын

  • "Saucy boy" is my favourite insult from Shakespeare

    @crashsite1576@crashsite15764 жыл бұрын

    • what, you egg? [he stabs him]

      @cm5061@cm50612 жыл бұрын

  • "You are a saucy boy." "What, you egg?" [He stabs him.]

    @shuichikina@shuichikina4 жыл бұрын

  • I am a Fishmonger and I am offended.

    @Lionbug@Lionbug8 жыл бұрын

    • +Lion Reichelt Offended am I and I am fishmonger.

      @nicolesong6199@nicolesong61998 жыл бұрын

    • ***** ooooooooh. so like a butcher.

      @nicolesong6199@nicolesong61998 жыл бұрын

    • ***** that doesn't quite make sense.

      @nicolesong6199@nicolesong61998 жыл бұрын

    • ***** aaaaahhh. that's great.

      @nicolesong6199@nicolesong61998 жыл бұрын

    • @@nicolesong6199 Bites my thumb

      @andrewzhu5394@andrewzhu53945 жыл бұрын

  • i fall asleep at thine humor!

    @PopTartNeko@PopTartNeko7 жыл бұрын

    • PopTartNeko LOL

      @splusproductions1441@splusproductions14417 жыл бұрын

    • 😂

      @amritas2400@amritas24004 жыл бұрын

    • *thy humour

      @AwesomeGuy_21@AwesomeGuy_212 жыл бұрын

  • 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

    @brintesiacirce9414@brintesiacirce94147 жыл бұрын

    • “Honey” Eugh.

      @zeltzamer4010@zeltzamer4010 Жыл бұрын

  • 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.

    @albertgainsworth@albertgainsworth6 жыл бұрын

  • i'm probably going to bite my thumb the next time i want to insult someone without them knowing.

    @georgiion1684@georgiion16847 жыл бұрын

  • My favorite insults are from "Much Ado About Nothing" especially the insults between Beatrice and Benedict. XP

    @charmagne2102@charmagne21028 жыл бұрын

    • +Charle Mange I love 'Much Ado About Nothing'! :)

      @alysonrodrigues1492@alysonrodrigues14928 жыл бұрын

    • thankyou!

      @benknight932@benknight9327 жыл бұрын

    • Yes!!!

      @lazarus8599@lazarus85994 жыл бұрын

  • 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.

    @MadhuNTHBetterToDo@MadhuNTHBetterToDo9 жыл бұрын

    • Then it's an insult parade.

      @stevencooke6451@stevencooke64512 жыл бұрын

  • "Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life." Henry IV, Part 1: Act 3, Scene 3.

    @shubhdeepkaur7948@shubhdeepkaur79487 жыл бұрын

  • "do you flip the bird at me, sir?" "well, I flip the bird!"

    @shaneturner500@shaneturner5007 жыл бұрын

    • "but do you flip the bird at _me_ , sir?" [quietly] "uhhh frick is the law on our side if i say yes?"

      @cm5061@cm50612 жыл бұрын

  • 'But is he truly using Fishmonger as an insult? Or is it that Hamlet is genuinely mad?' - Every performing arts teacher ever

    @BeepingMetal@BeepingMetal8 жыл бұрын

  • 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.

    @narutoandanimefa@narutoandanimefa8 жыл бұрын

    • +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.

      @datdeerdude5139@datdeerdude51398 жыл бұрын

    • dinoshar! dinoshar! Don't worry, I don't come to KZhead 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". (:

      @narutoandanimefa@narutoandanimefa8 жыл бұрын

    • 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@RowdyPumper8 жыл бұрын

    • +RowdyPumper Or our scintillating online text exchanges...

      @frostythechimneysweep8594@frostythechimneysweep85948 жыл бұрын

  • 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

    @prettyme4387@prettyme43877 жыл бұрын

  • 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.

    @christinehancock5995@christinehancock59958 жыл бұрын

    • Ditto to that, my friend. Ditto.

      @Concetta20@Concetta208 жыл бұрын

    • 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.

      @yeeshinwoon6867@yeeshinwoon68676 жыл бұрын

  • So Shakespeare is the diss king?

    @nicholaswieczorek4971@nicholaswieczorek49718 жыл бұрын

    • Pretty much, especially back in the day

      @ultimatebishoujo29@ultimatebishoujo293 жыл бұрын

  • A classicist would tell you that the word is pronounced hamarTEEa, not "hamarsha." Hamartia in Ancient Greek means error.

    @noncounterproductive4596@noncounterproductive45967 жыл бұрын

    • 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.

      @elvinmeng4905@elvinmeng49057 жыл бұрын

    • 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

      @noncounterproductive4596@noncounterproductive45967 жыл бұрын

    • Well that's ironic.

      @FarhatC28@FarhatC287 жыл бұрын

  • I never cringed at Shakespeare. I don't see why anyone would.

    @markblaze10@markblaze1010 жыл бұрын

    • Matt Vajgrt I get goose bumps if it is a good performance if that counts at all.

      @markblaze10@markblaze109 жыл бұрын

    • 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.

      @aur9035@aur90352 жыл бұрын

    • I was ten when u made this comment. Now I'm feeling cringey, wow am I living the past ?

      @simple-sandwich9957@simple-sandwich99572 жыл бұрын

    • @@simple-sandwich9957 Thanks for bringing me back. Now I have to cringe at myself.

      @markblaze10@markblaze102 жыл бұрын

  • Hamlet is hilarious, nearly every line he has is an insult, usually right to the person's face.

    @phookadude@phookadude12 жыл бұрын

  • Who's the intended audience of this video? Less than a minute in, I already feel my intelligence has been insulted.

    @aperson22222@aperson222228 жыл бұрын

  • 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?

    @wanketta@wanketta8 жыл бұрын

    • 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.

      @Concetta20@Concetta208 жыл бұрын

    • 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

      @annag6400@annag64006 жыл бұрын

  • 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.

    @AislinneG@AislinneG12 жыл бұрын

    • No. You interpret wrong.

      @paulsolon6229@paulsolon6229 Жыл бұрын

  • 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.

    @princessmj15hyrule@princessmj15hyrule8 жыл бұрын

  • 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... "

    @B612nian@B612nian10 жыл бұрын

  • Fish only smells bad if it is rotten.

    @cruelfish4824@cruelfish48248 жыл бұрын

    • naa

      @basmahshoaib5213@basmahshoaib52137 жыл бұрын

    • 'Tis well thou art not fish!

      @jizzfudgsickle3619@jizzfudgsickle36197 жыл бұрын

    • 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.

      @erischama1922@erischama19227 жыл бұрын

  • '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

    @dontbelieveinez@dontbelieveinez2 жыл бұрын

  • 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.

    @catcubus@catcubus12 жыл бұрын

  • Mood atmosphere and relationships are all the best things you need for a play

    @pritivishwakarma6186@pritivishwakarma61866 жыл бұрын

  • I've never watched such a boring video about insults :-P

    @annalisaa4029@annalisaa40298 жыл бұрын

    • Ive never watched such a boring insult about a vide #REKT #420NOSCOPE

      @thingonometry-1460@thingonometry-14608 жыл бұрын

    • +Thingonometry - Ahahah right!

      @annalisaa4029@annalisaa40298 жыл бұрын

    • +Thingonometry - I've never watched such a boring reply to boring insult about a video. HA HAAAAAA I can tang my triumph, Bedswerver!

      @Kostantinho@Kostantinho8 жыл бұрын

    • I've never seen such a boring comment section.

      @vision716@vision7168 жыл бұрын

    • +Thingonometry - ... But how do you watch an insult?

      @mamakazooie788@mamakazooie7888 жыл бұрын

  • She's from England...not all British people sound the same.

    @hankschannel@hankschannel12 жыл бұрын

    • First reply after 8years

      @billduck1341@billduck13413 жыл бұрын

    • @@billduck1341 improbability

      @zejeremiah2088@zejeremiah20882 жыл бұрын

    • I shall cement my legacy.

      @Christmas-Jacket@Christmas-Jacket6 ай бұрын

  • My favourite Shakespeare's quote (and insult) is "What, you egg?"...so poetic

    @hedvikarackova3138@hedvikarackova31387 жыл бұрын

  • I could like a full video about each and every insults by Shakespeare

    @paper3993@paper39934 жыл бұрын

  • Wonderful interpretations! The thumb biting really intrigued me!

    @theshatteredending@theshatteredending12 жыл бұрын

  • My favourite line in the Shakespeare playwright Macbeth, is when the murderer stabs a character and says "what, you egg?"

    @TurtleBrownie@TurtleBrownie7 жыл бұрын

  • I never cringe when I hear Shakespeare even if I get a little confused but I don't care I love words, especially his.

    @unamed2516@unamed25167 жыл бұрын

  • This video cracks me up because it basically translates Shakespeare's witty humor into today's slang

    @inkypink@inkypink7 жыл бұрын

  • this video taught me that nothing kills a joke or insult more than explaining why its funny or an insult.

    @adzug@adzug12 жыл бұрын

  • You know what, instead of listening and watching the video, I go down to read the comments and give myself entertainment xD

    @the07pattyvonne@the07pattyvonne8 жыл бұрын

  • 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

    @jonathangayfag@jonathangayfag12 жыл бұрын

  • Agree absolutely.

    @mariashawcross7662@mariashawcross76628 ай бұрын

  • i watched ALL of THAT.... someone needs to give me a gold star.

    @gammagammamoomoo@gammagammamoomoo12 жыл бұрын

  • "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?"

    @heyitzrane3025@heyitzrane30255 жыл бұрын

  • "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.

    @itslilyquinn@itslilyquinn4 жыл бұрын

  • 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!

    @vaibhavmishra2331@vaibhavmishra23312 жыл бұрын

  • My favorite of Shakespeare's insults is that one play where the villain calls mankind a miserable pile of secrets.

    @genesisproject1908@genesisproject190812 жыл бұрын

  • "they really are trying to tell you something" NOOOOOO YOU DONT SAY

    @gabriel300010@gabriel3000107 жыл бұрын

  • Get thee to a nunnery! One of my favorite quotes from Hamlet.

    @Bandgeek12XP@Bandgeek12XP12 жыл бұрын

  • you people are doing a fabulous work i love this channel

    @storiesforyou97@storiesforyou976 жыл бұрын

  • "words are very unnecessary.." thumbs up if you know the song reference

    @SkyeID@SkyeID8 жыл бұрын

    • +Skye ID That's because "they can only do harm."

      @wingracer1614@wingracer16148 жыл бұрын

  • Did you know that Shakespeare invented the word swag.

    @mollyedmonds5323@mollyedmonds53237 жыл бұрын

  • I love the old and longer Ted Ed intro

    @Thesmokeeffect@Thesmokeeffect Жыл бұрын

  • wow you dont know how much this helped since am reading Romeo and Juliet at my class and am currently reading Hamlet on my own. I shall do as said and look deeper within the plays themselvess. Hopefully I can get my hands on MacBeth after I finish Hamlet but nevertheless thank you very much.

    @MagicalGirlContractor@MagicalGirlContractor12 жыл бұрын

  • 6:14 Did anyone else notice the narrators name is Juliet spelled the way Shakespeare spells it? Like if u noticed

    @evetheeevee9138@evetheeevee91384 жыл бұрын

  • "Biting your tumb" was actually a term that Shakespeare tried to make a thing. And failed.

    @blockhead134@blockhead1347 жыл бұрын

  • For some reason I wish this was longer.

    @TwistedFireX@TwistedFireX12 жыл бұрын

  • [Capulet] You are a saucy boy

    @catofculture8562@catofculture85622 жыл бұрын

  • 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."

    @femaledasher9060@femaledasher90607 жыл бұрын

  • I shall bite my thumb at my English teacher and see how she reacts.

    @koyaTHEEkoala@koyaTHEEkoala4 жыл бұрын

  • I subscribed a few videos ago and I'm NOT disappointed! I learn things and not fall asleep from boredom!

    @lunab.3139@lunab.313912 жыл бұрын

  • [kicks down door] [flips table] y o u a r e a s a u c y b o y

    @cm5061@cm5061 Жыл бұрын

  • Narration by Juliet Blake.... illuminati confirmed.

    @kronk5866@kronk58668 жыл бұрын

    • why?

      @kewl-asian@kewl-asian8 жыл бұрын

    • that doesn't really explain anything to me

      @kewl-asian@kewl-asian8 жыл бұрын

    • +Austin Stoddard Oh, I'm the only one who thought this was a reference to William Blake?

      @moonienoire@moonienoire8 жыл бұрын

    • +Fatima Ammar Juliet Capulet + William Blake = Juliet Blake

      @kronk5866@kronk58668 жыл бұрын

    • Austin Stoddard Quirky xD

      @moonienoire@moonienoire8 жыл бұрын

  • Is it late that I'm going to read Romeo &juliet in 9th grade ?

    @vanessavlogs3185@vanessavlogs31857 жыл бұрын

    • no that's normal

      @TheOnlyGHero09@TheOnlyGHero097 жыл бұрын

    • snow white i taught some grade 9 romeo and juliet last week

      @TacuG16@TacuG167 жыл бұрын

    • Chingying V. Li I dont know

      @quack2390@quack23907 жыл бұрын

    • sounds about right to me

      @serenityrahn5656@serenityrahn56565 жыл бұрын

  • Shakespeare is indeed a humanoid spear thou pierce through thy reader thee shakes thyself from core

    @ADI_G.@ADI_G.8 ай бұрын

  • The Black Death peaked around 1350, but it reoccurred all throughout Europe and Asia with varying virulence until the late 18th century. In 1603, London had an outbreak that killed 38,000 Londoners. Shakespeare wrote some of his best tragedies in his later years like Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth. I really do think the plague influenced Shakespeare's writing.

    @PartVIII@PartVIII11 жыл бұрын

  • You are a saucy boy

    @niBBunn@niBBunn7 жыл бұрын

  • How we insult people in the past: Thou dare biting thumbs at I, such a heartless hind thou art Thou art mere fishmonger lol ;)

    @medelinejayasaputra2852@medelinejayasaputra28528 жыл бұрын

  • GET THEE TO A NUNNERY! ... In my AP English class we used this a lot after we went through that scene. I feel like you should have explained that one more... like the fact that nunnery could mean a convent OR a brothel, which makes it even greater.

    @bandnerd218@bandnerd21812 жыл бұрын

  • Thanks, Ted-Ed, after watching this video, my class is saying Shakespeare insults at each other all day now

    @02inthefranxx@02inthefranxx3 жыл бұрын

  • Fishmonger means someone who sells fish.

    @inhumanash1326@inhumanash13267 жыл бұрын

    • thanks for the clarification ... and here i always thought it was someone who mongers fish for a living

      @serenityrahn5656@serenityrahn56565 жыл бұрын

  • These lessons sound more like Captain Obvious to me. (that's an insult. in case you didn't get it)

    @nikgarus3709@nikgarus370910 жыл бұрын

  • My personal favorite from Romeo and Juliet was Lord Capulet calling Tybalt a saucy boy.

    @SethraLaVode@SethraLaVode6 жыл бұрын

  • For a long list of Shakespeare insults, go to the Shakespeare Study Guide (type these words in a search engine) and click on curses and insults.

    @michaelcummings4748@michaelcummings474810 жыл бұрын

  • Cut is another insult. Antonio from the Merchant of Venice (he is the merchant) uses that term against Shylock because he is a Jew.

    @hankreardenfan1019@hankreardenfan10197 жыл бұрын

    • Is it not cur?

      @kerentraynor9093@kerentraynor90937 жыл бұрын

    • No, I meant cur, it was a mistake.

      @hankreardenfan1019@hankreardenfan10197 жыл бұрын

    • Yes, you got it right. That's what I meant to say. Oops. I feel sorry for Shylock though.

      @hankreardenfan1019@hankreardenfan10197 жыл бұрын

  • Dost thou even hoist, brethren?

    @mishka2892@mishka28927 жыл бұрын

    • Mishka dost THOU even hoist, brethren?

      @lordweebus4367@lordweebus43677 жыл бұрын

    • Bloody Rose '^' ...that's what I said

      @mishka2892@mishka28927 жыл бұрын

    • Mishka Do you even lift, bro?

      @Faren_@Faren_7 жыл бұрын

    • good SUCC Not really....

      @mishka2892@mishka28927 жыл бұрын

  • 0:42-0:50 "I'm not dead yet!" "You'll be dead in a moment." LOL

    @Hybris51129@Hybris5112912 жыл бұрын

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream has the best insults ever I think: "You juggler, you cankerblossom! You thief of love!"

    @silverolympian6213@silverolympian62138 жыл бұрын

  • Shakespeare is savage af

    @whajksmwmsjshs@whajksmwmsjshs7 жыл бұрын

  • Someone from now timetravels and has a nervous tick and gets themself killed

    @StarrTheWitch@StarrTheWitch7 жыл бұрын

  • TED-Ed intro is very satisfying.

    @uzairahmed1113@uzairahmed11133 жыл бұрын

    • I know!

      @ultimatebishoujo29@ultimatebishoujo293 жыл бұрын

  • I expected a video about shakespeare's best insults, not a video where we learn "people getting angry is a contextual clue for the fact that people are angry"

    @TheNinthDr@TheNinthDr12 жыл бұрын

  • ...I thought everybody loved Shakespeare

    @alexneal9207@alexneal92078 жыл бұрын

  • I bite my thumb at thy, sir

    @HighLighterlines@HighLighterlines8 жыл бұрын

    • +HighLighterlines Dost thou inflict to thee hurt at mine expense? Befitting just as a morn's dervish, madness of loons methinks!

      @Agent1W@Agent1W8 жыл бұрын

    • +Agent1W How dare thou, adressing mine liege lord in such manner? Be gone foul caitiff, before hé sendeth his hounds, bursting with venom, through the night and to thine home. For mark my words, if the time cometh when mine patience is gone and by thine staying had been made all for naught, those beast animals were the smallest part of thine straits. Truly, such manners are only known to those which giveth not 2 ducats on thine mothers grave!

      @Zajin13@Zajin138 жыл бұрын
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