Shakespeare Vocab

Vocab word: bloodstained
Meaning: (adj.) to be stained with blood [duh!]
Connections with Shakespeare: Will invented this word. He used the word "bloodstained" in the play Henry IV in Part One, Act One, Scene Three.

Shakespeare Vocabulary

Vocab word: abhorred
Meaning: disgusted, horrified (adj.)
Connections with Shakespeare: The word "abhorred" is used frequently in Shakespeare's plays when describing a gory scene of murder.

Shakespearean Quote

“When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defac’d The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age; 
When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz’d, 
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage”
—Shakespeare, “Sonnet 64”
 (Also featured in The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare)   

Quote and Novel Connection

Shakespeare quote:
"I'll never pause again, never stand still, till either death hath closed these eyes of mine, or fortune given me measure of revenge."

Shakespearean play it's from:
King Henry Vl

Popular Young Adult novel it's featured in:
City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare. 

Quote and Popular Novel Connection

Shakespeare quote:
"If you prick us, do we not bleed? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?"

Shakespearean play the quote is from:
The Merchant of Venice

Popular Young Adult Novel the quote is featured in:
The 5th Wave by author Rick Yancey

        

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Shakespeare Vocabulary

Vocab word: thou
Meaning: You
Connections: Back in Will's time, people didn't say "you". They said "thou", which was considered the polite version of the old-timey word "thee".