All 3 Uses of
contempt
in
The Winter's Tale
- — Go, play, boy, play:—thy mother plays, and I Play too; but so disgrac'd a part, whose issue Will hiss me to my grave: contempt and clamour Will be my knell.†
Scene 1.2
- A lip of much contempt, speeds from me;
Scene 1.2 *contempt = disrespect
- Seest thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings? hath not my gait in it the measure of the court? receives not thy nose court-odour from me? reflect I not on thy baseness court-contempt?†
Scene 4.4