Shakespearean Profanity!

[wowthatisminty]

So the time has come when someone needs to write a Shakespearean adaptation of Cee-Lo Green's "F*ck You

Comments

[morgue_n]

"flobbercock" is one of my favorites. it's what it sounds like.

if i were you, i'd look for slang in the Oxford english dictionary's website.

[sollersuk]

I also like "whoreson" as a repeated adjective (gravedigger in Hamlet).

A good approach would be to look at the plays themselves and home in on the speeches printed as prose, not blank verse.

[azn_jack_fiend]

A fig for you!

http://madshakespeare.com/2010/02/words-words-words-fig/

[penhaligonblue]

"Fig you" gets my vote.

(As for "Go to," you're probably thinking of Lord Capulet chiding Tybalt for his pugnacity during the party scene of Romeo and Juliet, I.v.)

[wowthatisminty]

I think someone in the Complete Works Abridged mentions "go to" = "fuck you."

[syntinen_laulu]

That site isn't quite as explicit as it might be. The fig gesture represented the female genitals, and "la figue" in French, "la higa" in Spanish, and "la fica" in Italian, all meant (and still mean) "cunt".

[kisamehada]

I don't have anything to add, though I do want to say I really want to read that when you're done. XD

[wowthatisminty]

I finished

[kittenmorag]

You are amazing, and should feel amazing <3

=^..^=

[kisamehada]

LOL

That is perfect!!

[goldvermilion87]

Well, a good place to start might be the dialogue between Hamlet and Ophelia in Act 3, scene 2. That is all double entendre. Also, any Falstaff-centric dialogue in Henry IV parts 1 and 2 is going to have as much language as you're going to find in any Shakespeare play

[lilacs_roses]

Uh... haven't tried this but....
http://trevorstone.org/curse/

It's a "Elizabethan Curse Generator"