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\"Lear<\/a>

Photo: courtesy of BAM<\/p><\/div>\n

Last night I saw Angus Jackson\u2019s King Lear<\/i>, now at BAM, with a spry, sturdy Frank Langella in the title role. Langella was astonishing\u2014he does high dudgeon, he does piss and vinegar, he does grief, perplexity, and weariness. His rimy, bellowing voice belies a surprising range, especially in the later acts. Lear dodders around, benighted, mad, machinating and fulminating to no one.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t read Lear<\/i> in a while, and I\u2019d forgotten that it has some tremendous insults in it\u2014as befits a play about a graying, cantankerous head of state. I have a thing for archaic insults. They carry all the rancor of their modern-day counterparts, and with the added advantage of unfamiliarity\u2014you called me what<\/i>? The result is pure, clean-burning rage. It\u2019s not unlike seeing someone mouth off in a country where you don\u2019t speak the language.<\/p>\n

Shakespeare, being Shakespeare, really knows how to deliver a good tongue-lashing\u2014the theater has always been an ideal venue to see people go off on one another, and accordingly his plays are zested with putdowns. These are, I think, great fun to try on your friends. (And then, later, once you\u2019ve mastered them, on your enemies.) <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Lear, red hot but ice cold, in act 1, scene 4, asking the heavens to rain suffering on his daughter Goneril, who has just put him out:<\/p>\n

\n

Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess, hear!
Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend
To make this creature fruitful!
Into her womb convey sterility!
Dry up in her the organs of increase;
And from her derogate body never spring
A babe to honour her! If she must teem,
Create her child of spleen; that it may live,
And be a thwart disnatured torment to her!
Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth;
With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks;
Turn all her mother\u2019s pains and benefits
To laughter and contempt; that she may feel
How sharper than a serpent\u2019s tooth it is
To have a thankless child! Away, away!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That convey<\/i> feels most damning\u2014as if the gods would shuttle sterility into a womb on a wheelbarrow, or with some sort of pulley apparatus. Derogate<\/i> sits so well as an adjective that I wonder why we ever let it fall into obsolescence, and if there\u2019s not a metal band called Child of Spleen, well, I\u2019ll start one.<\/p>\n

But the most scalding torrent of invective in Lear<\/i> belongs to Kent, who, a bit later on, gives Oswald one of theater\u2019s greatest dressings-down:<\/p>\n

\n

KENT<\/b><\/p>\n

Fellow, I know thee.<\/p>\n

OSWALD<\/b><\/p>\n

What dost thou know me for?<\/p>\n

KENT<\/b><\/p>\n

A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a
base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,
hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a
lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson,
glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue;
one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a
bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but
the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar,
and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I
will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest
the least syllable of thy addition.<\/p>\n

OSWALD<\/b><\/p>\n

Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to rail
on one that is neither known of thee nor knows thee!<\/p>\n

KENT<\/b><\/p>\n

What a brazen-faced varlet art thou, to deny thou
knowest me! Is it two days ago since I tripped up
thy heels, and beat thee before the king? Draw, you
rogue: for, though it be night, yet the moon
shines; I’ll make a sop o’ the moonshine of you:
draw, you whoreson cullionly barber-monger, draw.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Should you deploy \u201cwhoreson cullionly barber-monger\u201d at your next bar brawl, you\u2019ll emerge victorious, guaranteed.<\/p>\n

Not all the insults are so limpid, though. Earlier in the scene Kent says, \u201cIf I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make thee care for me.\u201d I have no way of divining what \u201cLipsbury pinfold\u201d might be\u2014a wrestling variant, something akin to boxing\u2019s Marquess of Queensberry rules? The New York Times<\/i> says it means \u201cbetween the teeth\u201d; the Independent<\/i> says it means oral sex; less reputable quarters of the internet say it\u2019s \u201ca very fine weave cloth, possibly with a narrow pinstripe on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, \u201cLipsbury pinfold\u201d has moxie\u2014it pops. One imagines that, uttered with proper scorn, the term would still have the desired effect. There\u2019s only one way to find out.<\/p>\n

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