Tag: Comedies

  • October 31

    October 31

    Mild Rebuke


    You, minion, are too saucy.

    –Two Gentlemen of Verona,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • October 30

    October 30

    Devil’s Night


    Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

    —-The Tempest,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • October 28

    October 28

    Disturbing the Peace


    …are you mad? or what are you? Have ye no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night?

    –Twelfth Night,
    Act II, Scene iii

  • October 24

    October 24

    Get Off Me


    Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! vile thing, let loose,
    Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent!

    —A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
    Act III, Scene ii

  • October 22

    October 22

    Spoiled


    Take her back again:
    Give not this rotten orange to your friend…

    Much Ado About Nothing, 
    Act IV, Scene i

  • October 21

    October 21

    Warning


    If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

    –Taming of the Shrew,
    Act II, Scene i

  • October 17

    October 17

    You’re a Pair of Monkeys


    Or else you had looked through
    the grate, like a geminy of baboons.

    Merry Wives of Windsor,
    Act II, Scene ii