to help you understand my play, romeo and juliet, i offer you guide #1 2 nd person familiar pronouns...
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To help you understand my play, Romeo and Juliet, I offer you
Guide #12nd Person Familiar Pronouns
Singular PronounsThou – Subject: “Thou art my brother.”
Thee – Object: “Come, let me clutch thee.”
Thy – Possessive Adjective: “What is thy name?”
Thine – Possessive Noun: “To thine own self be true.”
Plural PronounsYe – Subject: “Ye shall know me.”
To help you understand my play, Romeo and Juliet, I offer you
Guide #2Verb Endings
Elizabethans liked to add endings to verbs, usually with second person familiar pronouns:
“Thou liest, malignant thing.”
“What didst thou see?”
“Why canst thou not see the difference?”
Shakespeare’s Language Guide #3Troublesome Words to Know
Shakespeare’s Word
Definition
Anon Until later
Aye Yes
Bum Backside
Catch Song
Cog To deceive
Coil Trouble
Cousin Any close relative
Dispatch To hurry
E’en Evening
Fare-thee-well Goodbye
Fie A curse
Shakespeare’s Word
Definition
List Listen
Mayhap Maybe
Morrow Day
Nay No
Ne’er Never
Oft Often
Perchance Maybe
Prithee Please
Recreant Coward
Tax To criticize or accuse
Verily truly
Shakespeare’s Word
Definition
Wherefore why
yea yes
zounds By His wounds
Shakespeare’s Language Guide #4Odd Words
(No need to memorize these words. They might be fun to use if you want to impress your friends.
Shakespeare’s Word
Definition
Boiled-brains Hotheaded youths
Canker-blossom Worm in the bud
clodpole dunce
Fancy-monger Lovesick man
foppery foolishness
geck fool
Kicky-wicky Term of endearment
Logger-headed stupid
Shakespeare’s Word
Definition
Onion-eyed Tending to weep
pismire ant
prig thief
Slug-a-bed sleepyhead
Tittle-tattle gossip
ungrown immature
unhaired beardless
zwaggered bullied