Vulgar words in William Shakespeare (Page 1)

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bastard x 15
damn x 1
make love x 4
whore x 1
            

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~   ~   ~   Sentence 175   ~   ~   ~

Each disguised lover makes love-vows to the wrong woman.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 442   ~   ~   ~

"Nowhere are wheedling whores more cunning at bilking people."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 824   ~   ~   ~

By his side, with an irony that is seldom praised, Shakespeare places the figure of the Bastard, the man who ought to have been king, the man fitted by nature to rule the English, the man without intellect but with a rough capacity, the man whom we meet again, as a successful king, in the play of _Henry V_.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 836   ~   ~   ~

Another of the results of human treachery appears in the person of the Bastard, whose mother confesses that she was seduced by the "long and vehement suit" of Coeur de Lion.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 837   ~   ~   ~

The Bastard's half-brother, another domestic traitor, does not scruple to accuse his mother of adultery in the hope that, by doing so, he may obtain the Bastard's heritage.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 854   ~   ~   ~

The play ends with the Bastard's well-known brag about England-- "Naught shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 864   ~   ~   ~

A reader feels that in the figure of the Bastard he set down what he found most significant in the common English character.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 865   ~   ~   ~

With the exceptions of Sir Toby Belch and Justice Shallow, the Bastard is the most English figure in the plays.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 868   ~   ~   ~

An entirely honest, robust, hearty person, contemptuous of the weak, glad to be a king's bastard, making friends with women (his own mother one of them) with a trusty, good-humoured frankness, fond of fighting, extremely able when told what to do, fond of plain measures--the plainer the better, an honest servant, easily impressed by intellect when found in high place on his own side, but utterly incapable of perceiving intellect in a foreigner, fond of those sorts of humour which generally lead to blows, extremely just, very kind when not fighting, fond of the words "fair play," and nobly and exquisitely moved to deep, true poetical feeling by a cruel act done to something helpless and little.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 870   ~   ~   ~

The Bastard is trying to find out whether Hubert killed Arthur, whose little body lies close beside them.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 873   ~   ~   ~

The Bastard tests the protest with one sentence: "Go bear him in thine arms."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 876   ~   ~   ~

Instantly the Bastard is touched to a tenderness that lifts Hubert to a spiritual comradeship with him-- "How easy dost thou take all England up."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,305   ~   ~   ~

_The Fable._ Falstaff makes love to Mistress Ford, the wife of a Windsor man.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,440   ~   ~   ~

Don John and Borachio vow to Claudio that they overheard Don Pedro making love to Hero.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,522   ~   ~   ~

Orsino is cured of sentiment by the sight of Sebastian making love like a man.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,068   ~   ~   ~

Gloucester, deceived by his bastard Edmund, casts off Edgar his son.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,070   ~   ~   ~

Gloucester, trying to comfort him against the wishes of Goneril and Regan, is betrayed by his bastard Edmund, and blinded.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,099   ~   ~   ~

It is unnatural that Gloucester should make much of a bastard son whom he has hardly seen for nine years.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,236   ~   ~   ~

All that he has done is to damn his soul through the centuries during which the line of Banquo will reign.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,785   ~   ~   ~

INDEX OF CHARACTERS Achilles, 169, 170 Adonis, 241, 242 Adriana, 46, 47 Ægeon, 44, 46, 49 Aguecheek, Sir Andrew, 139 Ajax, 169, 172 Albany, Duke of, 187, 190 Alcibiades, 214, 215, 217, 218 Angelo, 174, 175, 177, 196 Anne Bullen, 236, 237 Anne, Lady, 93, 100 Antipholus of Ephesus, 44, 46 Antipholus of Syracuse, 44 Antonio (_Merchant of Venice_), 103 Antonio (_Tempest_), 232, 235 Antonio (_Two Gentlemen of Verona_), 34 Apemantus, 215 Armado, 30, 31 Arthur, Prince, 75, 80, 83, 84 Audrey, 129 Austria, Lymoges, Duke of, 81 Autolycus, 228 Banquo, 195, 200 Bardolph, 122, 124, 125 Bassanio, 103 Beatrice, 133, 134, 136, 137 Beaufort, Cardinal, 51, 55, 57, 58, 59 Belarius, 223 Belch, Sir Toby, 82, 138, 139, 217 Benedick, 133, 134, 136 Bertram, 144, 145, 146 Bianca, 105, 108 Biondello, 107 Biron, 24, 25, 32, 36 Blanch of Spain, 75, 79 Borachio, 134, 135 Bottom, 63 Boyet, 30 Brutus, 149, 150, 154, 156 Buckingham, Duke of (_Richard III_), 94, 98, 99 Buckingham, Duke of (_Henry VIII_), 235, 237 Cade, Jack, 55, 57 Caius, Dr., 124, 125 Calchas, 169 Carlisle, Bishop of, 89, 92 Cassio, 180, 181, 183 Cassius, 149 Cawdor, 198 Celia, 128, 129 Cerimon, 222 Clarence, George, Duke of, 93, 94, 98, 100 Claudio (_Measure for Measure_), 174, 177, 178 Claudio (_Much Ado_), 133, 134, 135 Claudius (_Hamlet_), 157, 158, 160, 161, 163, 164, 165, 166 Cleopatra, 202, 203, 207, 217 Cloten, 223 Cordelia, 187, 188, 190, 192 Coriolanus, 196, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212 Cornwall, Duke of, 190 Costard, 30, 31 Cranmer, 236 Cressida, 169 Cymbeline, 223, 225 Demetrius, 63 Desdemona, 180, 181, 183, 184, 185 Diana (_All's Well_), 144 Diana (_Pericles_), 219, 220 Don John, 133, 134, 135 Don Pedro, 133, 134, 136 Dorset, Marquess of, 98 Dromio of Ephesus, 44 Dromio of Syracuse, 44, 46 Dumaine, 24, 32 Duncan, King, 154, 195, 198, 201 Edgar, 187, 190 Edmund, 187, 188, 189, 190, 192, 204 Edward III, 239 Edward IV, 93, 94 Edward, Prince of Wales (_Henry VI_), 62 Edward, Prince of Wales (_Richard III_), 99 Eglamour, 41 Elinor, Queen, 78 Elizabeth, wife of Edward IV, 94 Elizabeth, Princess, 236 Emilia, 183, 184 Evans, Sir Hugh, 124, 125 Falstaff, Sir John, 112, 113, 116, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126 Flavius, 216 Florizel, 227 Fluellen, 123 Fool (_Lear_), 192 Ford, Mistress, 124, 125 Fortinbras, 161 Frederick, Duke, 128, 129, 132 Friar Laurence, 68, 71, 74 Gertrude, Queen, 157, 158, 161, 165 Ghost (_Hamlet_), 158 Gloucester, Earl of, 187, 188, 189, 190 Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of, 51, 55, 57, 58, 59 Gloucester, Richard, Duke of, (_Henry VI_), 61 Gloucester, Richard, Duke of, (_Richard III_), 93, 115 Goneril, 187, 189, 193 Grey, Lord, 98, 99 Hamlet, 158, 160, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 191, 196, 243 Hastings, Lord, 99 Hector, 169, 170 Helen, 171 Helena (_Midsummer Night's Dream_), 63 Helena (_All's Well_), 144, 145, 147 Henry IV, 109, 110, 111, 113, 114, 116 Henry V, 120, 121 Henry VI, 51, 52, 60, 61, 62 Henry VIII, 235, 236, 237, 238 Henry, Prince of Wales, 109, 111, 112, 114, 118 Henry Bolingbroke, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92 Hermia, 63 Hermione, 226, 227, 229 Hero, 133, 134, 135 Hippolyta, 63 Hotspur, Henry Percy, surnamed, 109, 110, 111, 113, 114, 116, 119 Hubert de Burgh, 80, 83 Iachimo, 223, 225 Iago, 181, 182, 181, 185, 204, 211 Imogen, 223 Isabella, 174, 175 Jaques, 129, 131, 132 Joan of Arc, 51, 54 John, King of England, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80 John of Gaunt, 86, 89, 91 John of Lancaster, 114, 118 Julia, 34, 35, 39, 40, 42 Juliet, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71 Julius Cæsar, 149, 153, 154, 156, 196 Katharina, 106, 108 Katharine, 32 Katharine of France, 120 Katharine, Queen, 235, 236, 237, 238 Kent, 187, 190 Laertes, 158, 161 Launce, 42 Lear, King, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 193, 194 Lennox, 202 Leonato, 135, 136 Leontes, King of Sicilia, 226, 227, 228, 229 Lewis the Dauphin, 75, 79 Longaville, 24, 32 Lucio, 177,178 Lucrece, 243 Lysander, 63 Macbeth, 191, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 202, 217 Macbeth, Lady, 195, 199, 200 Macduff, 195, 202 Malcolm, 195 Malvolio, 138, 139, 140, 141 Mamillius, 227, 229 Marcius, 208 Margaret of Anjou, 52, 55, 62, 94 Maria, 139 Mariana, 174, 175 Marina, 219, 220, 222 Mark Antony, 149, 191, 196, 202, 204, 206 Mercutio, 68, 70 Milan, Duke of, 34, 35, 38, 39 Miranda, 232 Mortimer, 53 Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray, Duke of, 86, 119 Northumberland, Henry Percy, Earl of, 114 Nurse to Juliet, 74 Nym, 123, 124 Oberon, 63 Octavia, 202 Octavius Cæsar, 149, 202, 203, 205 Olivia, 138, 140, 141 Oliver, 128, 129 Ophelia, 157, 158, 166 Orlando, 128, 129, 131 Orsino, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142 Othello, 180, 181, 182, 183, 186, 191, 196 Page, Anne, 124 Page, Mistress, 124 Pandarus, 169 Pandulph, Cardinal, 75 Paris, 68 Pericles, Prince of Tyre, 213, 219, 220 Petruchio, 105, 107 Phebe, 129, 132, 133 Philip the Bastard, 77, 78, 80, 82, 83 Philip of France, 75, 80 Pistol, 117, 122, 123, 124 Polixenes, King of Bohemia, 226, 227, 228 Polonius, 158, 161 Portia, 102, 103, 104, 132 Posthumus, 223, 225 Prospero, Duke of Milan, 232, 235 Proteus, 34, 35, 39, 40, 41 Puck, 63 Pyramus, 63 Queen (_Cymbeline_), 223, 225 Quickly, Mrs., 124 Regan, 187, 189 Richard II, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 115, 119 Richard III, 93, 94, 96, 98, 99, 102, 211 Richard, Duke of York, 99 Rivers, Earl, 98, 99 Roderigo, 183 Romeo, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71 Rosalind, 128, 129, 132 Rosaline, 25, 31, 32, 69, 133 Salisbury, Countess of, 239 Scroop, Lord, 122 Sebastian (_Tempest_), 235 Sebastian (_Twelfth Night_), 138 Shallow, Justice, 82, 124 Shylock, 103, 104 Silvia, 34, 35, 38, 39, 41 Simpcox, 65, 59 Slender, Master, 124 Sly, Christopher, 105, 107 Somerset, Earl of, 51 Stephano, 234 Suffolk, Earl of, 52, 55, 57 Talbot, 51, 54 Tamora, 49, 50 Tarquin, 196, 243 Thaisa, 219, 220, 222 Thersites, 172 Theseus, 63, 66 Thisbe, 63 Thurio, 34, 35, 37, 38 Timon of Athens, 196, 209, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218 Titania, 63 Titus Andronicus, 49, 50 Touchstone, 129 Trinculo, 234 Troilus, 169 Tybalt, 68, 70 Ulysses, 170 Ursula, 133 Valentine, 34, 35, 38, 39, 41 Venus, 241, 242 Vienna, Duke of, 174, 178 Viola, 138, 139, 141, 142 Warwick, Earl of, 59, 61 Wolsey, Cardinal, 196, 235, 236, 237, 238 York, Edmund of Langley, Duke of, 89, 92 York, Edward, Duke of, 61 York, Richard, Duke of, 51, 55, 57, 62 _Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury._ * * * * * Home University Library of Modern Knowledge _A Comprehensive Series of New and Specially Written Books_ EDITORS: PROF. 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