Play in which Thersites tells Ajax, "The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!"
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Troilus & Cressida: Act 2, Scene 1 - PlayShakespeare.com  The slow-witted Ajax and the bitter Thersites abuse one another till Ajax, outclassed, resorts ... Synopsis  Characters  Scenes  Full Play  Reviews .... The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord! ... This lord, Achilles, Ajax, who wears his wit in his belly and his guts in his head, I'll tell you what I say of him.
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Physical Deformity in Shakespeare | Jeffrey R. Wilson  Indeed, 'tis true that Henry told me of; For I have often ... That I should snarl and bite and play the dog. Then, since the .... Ther. The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord! Ajax. Speak then, thou ... Enter Thersites. Achil.
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Troilus and Cressida. Act II. Scene I. William Shakespeare. 1914 ...  CONTENTS  PLAY CONTENTS  DRAMATIS PERSON  BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD ... A Part of the Grecian Camp. Enter AJAX and THERSITES. Ajax. Thersites! ... Ther. The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord! Ajax. ... If thou use to beat me, I will begin at thy heel, and tell what thou art by inches,...
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Troilus and Cressida - Sacred Text Archive  Tell me, Apollo, for thy Daphne's love, What Cressid is, what Pandar, and what we? ..... Now play him me, Patroclus, Arming to answer in a night alarm. ... Ajax is grown self-will'd, and bears his head In such a rein, in full as proud a place As .... THERSITES The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!
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Language Log: Selective quotation at the Globe?  Jul 30, 2005 ... The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord! ... In order to make sure that I had the quote right, I checked the play, and found ... by telling myself that Shakespeare must have experienced the same ... AJAX. Thersites! THERSITES. Agamemnon-how if he had boils full, an over, generally?
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Titus Andronicus. A Concordance To The Text Of The First Quarto Of ...  It is certainly the strangest Shakespeare play I've read so far. ... Titus Andronicus, while it does have a few bitter jokes, is not a comedy. .... It's not that (view spoiler)[ Titus feeds Tamora the flesh of her own sons, it's more that he kills .... Lavinia gets her tongue and hands cut out after she's raped so she can't say who did it [but...
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Alex (Brooklyn, NY)'s review of Medea and Other Plays - Goodreads  It's from The Mourning Bride (1697) by someone named William Congreve. Same play opens with "Music has charms to soothe a savage breast" - not beast. ... Aeschylus (ESS-kill-us, 524 - 455 BC) is called the father of tragedy, mostly .... Read: This edition contains his four most famous plays (also included: the trippy Birds,...
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jeopardy/202_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THE SWORD | In "The Lord of the Rings", he gives his cousin Frodo the ... 7-LETTER WORDS | Usually, to do this is to lose a game without playing it | forfeit ... of the Clue Crew reports from the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, Greece. ... in a contest held here at the Theater of Dionysus in 431 B.C., he came in last | Euripides.
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Insults From Shakespeare  Othello Pericles, Prince of Tyre Richard II Richard III Romeo and Juliet ... He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother is reputed one of the best .... What a slave art thou to hack thy sword as thou hast done, and then say it .... Heaven truly knows that thou are as false as hell .... She is spread of late into a goodly bulk.
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Euripides - Wikiquote  480; Variant translation: To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish. ... Bellerophon, Fragment 298; quoted in Plutarch's Morals : Ethical Essays (1888) edited and .... Line 392 (Jocasta) ; translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff ; as found in Euripides IV: Helen, The ... Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
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Waiting for Godot -- Act 2 - Samuel Beckett  ESTRAGON: Pozzo and Lucky? VLADIMIR: He's forgotten everything! ESTRAGON: I remember a lunatic who kicked the shins off me. Then he played the fool.
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Full text of "Shakespere's predecessors in the English drama"  Blending of Gay with Grave  Types of Female Character  Boy-Actors. ..... I. Playwrights in Possession of the Stage before Shakspere  The Scholar-Poets ..... method, effects of over-ripeness and irresistible decay, in the flamboyance of French ...... The Elegists and Ovid were for them the fountain-head of mythic fables.
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Troiles and Cressida: Entire Play  To tell you, fair beholders, that our play .... himself! Well, the gods are above; time must friend or end: well, Troilus, well: I would my ...... How he describes himself! ...... Hath beat down Menon: bastard Margarelon .... A bastard son of Priam's.
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Euripides - Wikipedia  Euripides (c. 480  c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. He is one of the few whose plays have survived, with the others being Aeschylus, Sophocles, and potentially Euphorion. Some ancient scholars attributed 95 plays to him but according to the Suda it ... More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and...
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libseries.num42.pdf - KU ScholarWorks - The University of Kansas  If this is die theme of the play, as I suggest, then the means by which. Samson comes to ..... biblical injunctionGod cannot forgive him, Samson has no hint of the true ..... Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza mourns ...... Hussy too records that ...... box at die opera, and dedicated his Castle of Otranto to her in a sonnet that.
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Sophocles | Greek dramatist | Britannica.com  Mar 31, 2015 ... With Aeschylus and Euripides, one of classical Athens' three great tragic ... Colonus, ancient Greece ... These few facts are about all that is known of Sophocles' life. .... Ajax is generally regarded as the earliest of the extant plays. .... In this play, however, the main focus is on Orestes' sister Electra and her...
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Lysistrata - Wikipedia  Lysistrata is a comedy by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from ... The Old Women complain about the difficulty they had getting the water but...
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Arms and the Man Themes - eNotes.com  In the person of Bluntschli and in his comments about battle, Shaw establishes the .... The title is an allusion to the first line of Virgil's Aeneid. ... Shaw's play The Arms and the Man is a comedy that uses humor to present a serious critique of...
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jeopardy/3683_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  SHAKESPEARE | The play in which Emilia screams, "The moor hath kill'd my mistress! Murder! Murder!" | Othello. right: Scott. Wrong: Value: $200. Number: 2.
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What is an incident that supports the secondary theme, "Oh, what ...  Sep 6, 2011 ... Puck say this in the play " Lord, what fools these mortals be!" ... How does Shakespeare create comedy in A Midsummer Night's Dream?
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"Ira Regis: Comedic Inflections of Royal Rage in Jewish Court Tales ...  Jan 1, 2013 ... Mel Brooks, from an interview on 60 Minutes ... Calchas, "Bird-Reader Supreme," says to Achilles: "You will support me and protect me in word and deed. ... is so incensed that he threatens the river itself, promising that "he would weaken ...... of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge, Mass., 2001).