Elements of Comedy- Act 2 Scene 1
OLD COMEDY
Bawdiness:

• 'she's too curst'- raunchy (line 18) double entendre
• 'deliver I up my apes' (4)
• 'I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband' sexual innuendo (50) double entendre
• 'with his bad legs falls into the clinque-pace...til he sink into his grave' (69) obscene innuendo for marriage with a wrong suiter
• 'Here's his dry hand up and down' (107)
• 'I will but teach them to sing' (215) notes, noting- penis double entendre

NEW COMEDY
Romance:

• 'He'll but break a comparison or two on me ' (133)

Reuniting:

Fast Paced:

• 'especially when I walk away' (79) 'My visor is Philemon's roof' 'your visor should be thatched'
• 'I have many ill qualities' 'Which is one? 'I say my prayers aloud' (90)
• 'I know you by the waggling of your head' (104) 'I counterfeit him'
• 'I pray you leave me'(181)

Witty:

• 'Not til God make men of some other metal than Earth' (52)
• 'the devil meet me... Beatrice, get you to heaven' (39)
• 'I have a good eye, Uncle' (72)
• 'I know you by the waggling of your head' (104)
• 'do you think I do not know you by your excellent wit?' (111)
• 'I had my good wit out of The Hundred Merry Tales' (118)
• 'he is the prince's jester, a very dull fool; only his gift is in devising impossible slanders' (125)
• 'now you strike like the blind man!' (182)

Gulling/deception

• 'Are you not Signor Benedick?' (146) 'dissuade him from her, she is no equal for his birth' 'he swore he would marry her tonight'