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Corambis is an alternative name for Polonius in Hamlet. He is so named in The First Quarto of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (1603); occasionally referred to as the "bad quarto". Cordelia is the youngest daughter in King Lear. She marries the King of France. At the end of the play she is hanged on Edmund's instructions.
The following is a list of religious slurs or religious insults in the English language that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about adherents or non-believers of a given religion or irreligion, or to refer to them in a derogatory (critical or disrespectful), pejorative (disapproving or contemptuous), or insulting manner.
A servant (who Shakespeare may have intended to be the same character as "Peter") needs the help of Romeo and Benvolio to read the guest list for Capulet's party, in Romeo and Juliet. A servant to the Lord Chief Justice is abused by Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 2 .
complisult, from compliment and insult [2] cosplay, from costume and play [5] disastrophe, from disaster and catastrophe [2] drunkorexia, from drunk and anorexia; dumbfound, from dumb and confound [26] electrocute, from electric and execute [5] Farmageddon, from farm and Armageddon, title of book; flimmer, from flicker and glimmer [2]
Apemantus visits him to accuse Timon of copying his ideals. The two of them then proceed to elaborately insult each other. The best known recent Apemantus was portrayed by the Irish actor Norman Rodway, who played the role both for BBC television and for The Arkangel Shakespeare audiobook. His performance in these differ significantly, as ...
William Shakespeare's play Hamlet has contributed many phrases to common English, from the famous "To be, or not to be" to a few less known, but still in everyday English. Some also occur elsewhere (e.g. in the Bible) or are proverbial. All quotations are second quarto except as noted:
Dogberry is a character created by William Shakespeare for his play Much Ado About Nothing. The Nuttall Encyclopædia describes him as a "self-satisfied night constable" with an inflated view of his own importance as the leader of a group of comically bumbling watchmen. [1]
The fruit in the Garden of Eden is not named in the Book of Genesis. The forbidden fruit mentioned in the Book of Genesis is never identified as an apple, [263] as widely depicted in Western art. The original Hebrew texts mention only fruit. [264] [265]