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 #1 2 nd Person Familiar Pronouns Singular Pronouns Thou – 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 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