| quote about pun | messenger: (about benedick to beatrice) and a good soldier too, ladybeatrice: and a good soldier to a lady, but what is he to a lord?ACT 1, SECENE 1this pun is a play on words, as there are two meanings of the same words |
| quote about running gag | don pedro: i think this is your daughter?leonato: her mother hath many times told me sobenedick: were you in doubt, sir, that you asked her?leonato: signor benedick, no, for then you were a childACT 1, SCENE 1 |
| frequent running gag in shakespeare | cuckold: a man who’s wife is unfaithful. refers to a cuckoo, a bird that lays eggs in another birds nest. |
| define quibble | wordplays with as many meanings as possible from one word or phrase |
| define puns | the epitome of wordplay. there are usually different meanings to the same word. |
| define running gags | an amusing jest that occurs many times |
| define topical humour | humour that is relative to typical knowledge and attitudes of the current times |
| quote about quibble | don pedro: do it in notesbalthasar: note this before my notes; theres not a note of mine thats worth the notingdon pedro: why, these are very crotchets that he speaks. note notes, forsooth and nothing.ACT 2, SCENE 3 |
| another form of quibble | metaphor |
| example of metaphorical quibble | lord, he will hang upon him like a disease: he is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker runs presently mad. |
| example of topical humour | i will … bring you the length of prester johns fot: fetch you a hair of the great cham’s beard: do you embassage to the pygmies. |
| define mountanto | an upward thrust in fencing. could also have a sexual undertone. could be understood as slang for reaching upward socially beyond his level. |
English – Much Ado About Nothing (HUMOUR)
July 12, 2019