Short Shakespeare!
Macbeth
January 22
March 5, 2011
in CST's Courtyard Theater
by William Shakespeare
adapted and directed by David H. Bell
How Insulting
Shakespeare wrote beautiful poetry...and some incredible insults! Gather together and have some fun as you read aloud (with feeling!) the insults that the characters from Macbeth sling at each other. And don't just say them once! Play with a few of your favorites and really make them "big"! As you play with the delicious words that Shakespeare gave us, think about a situation that might prompt that specific insult and discuss together.
[Your] horrid image doth unfix my hair. 1.3.135
Your face is as a book, where men / May read strange matters. 1.5.62–63
Infirm of purpose! 2.2.51
Tis said, they eat each other. 2.4.18
Thou art the best o' th'cut-throats. 3.4.16
Never shake / Thy gory locks at me. 3.4.49–50
Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold. 3.4.93
What, you egg! / Young fry of treachery! 4.2.82–83
Fit to govern? / No, not to live. 4.3.102–103
Thou lily-liver'd boy. 5.3.14–15
[This] is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing. 5.5.26–28