Vulgar words in Shakespearean Tragedy - Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (Page 1)

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63): Does it not, thinks't thee, stand me now upon-- He that hath kill'd my king and whored my mother, Popp'd in between the election and my hopes, Thrown out his angle for my proper life, And with such cozenage--is't not perfect conscience To quit him with this arm?

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and is't not to be damn'd To let this canker of our nature come In further evil?

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Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damn'd Dane, Drink off this potion.

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And what could better illustrate those defects of hers which make one wince, than her repeating again and again in Desdemona's presence the word Desdemona could not repeat; than her talking before Desdemona of Iago's suspicions regarding Othello and herself; than her speaking to Desdemona of husbands who strike their wives; than the expression of her honest indignation in the words, Has she forsook so many noble matches, Her father and her country and her friends, To be called whore?

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[Footnote 119: A curious proof of Iago's inability to hold by his creed that absolute egoism is the only proper attitude, and that loyalty and affection are mere stupidity or want of spirit, may be found in his one moment of real passion, where he rushes at Emilia with the cry, 'Villainous whore!'

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128: O be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!

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He has a lighter and more superficial nature, and there is a certain genuine gaiety in him which makes one smile not unsympathetically as one listens to his first soliloquy, with its cheery conclusion, so unlike Iago's references to the powers of darkness, Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

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'Fortune ... showed like a rebel's whore' (I. ii.

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I read again (V. v. 7): bastard Margarelon Hath Doreus prisoner, And stands colossus-wise, waving his beam, Upon the pashed corses of the kings.

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15, 'Fortune ... show'd like a rebel's whore.'

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_Oth._ She turn'd to folly, and she was a whore.

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Why dost thou lash that whore?

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