Costard
Costard is a comic figure in the play page and Jaquenetta, a country wench, Costard pokes fun at the upper-class. While mocking a pedantic schoolmaster, Costard uses the word honorificabilitudinitatibus, the longest word by far from any of Shakespeare's works.
Costard makes many clever puns, and is used as a tool by Shakespeare to explain new words such as remuneration. He is sometimes considered one of the smartest characters in the play due to his wit and wordplay.
Costard's name is an archaic term for apple, or metaphorically a man's head.[1] Shakespeare uses the word in this sense in Richard III.[2]
References
- ^ "Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable – Costard". Retrieved 2007-01-13.
- ^ "William Shakespeare: Richard III, Act I, Scene IV — Infoplease.com". Retrieved 2007-01-13.
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