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Claire Guéron, « Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin. The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare’s World », Miranda, ID : 10.4000/miranda.55903
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To many of us, Shakespearean insults have devolved into little more than pop culture artefacts, the stuff of coffee-mug inscriptions, T-shirt slogans, and internet memes. There is a playful appeal to such phrases as “thou greasy tallow-catch” (1Henry IV, 2.4.228) and “thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye” (Troilus and Cressida, 5.1.31-2), phrases whose potency has become so diluted with time that amateur thespians can use them in vocal warm-ups, comfortably flinging them at each other with...