Shakespearean Insults

English 9Austin

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), English playwright and poet, recognized in much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists. Shakespeare's plays communicate a profound knowledge of the wellsprings of human behavior, revealed through portrayals of a wide variety of characters.

His use of poetic and dramatic means to create a unified aesthetic effect out of a multiplicity of vocal expressions and actions is recognized as a singular achievement, and his use of poetry within his plays to express the deepest levels of human motivation in individual, social, and universal situations is considered one of the greatest accomplishments in literary history.

Not everyone though considers that the master bard is a genius of the English Language - here are some insulting quotes about the master bard.

Macbeth

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Titus Andronicus Titus Andronicus Titus Andronicus Titus Andronicus Titus Andronicus Titus Andronicus

Titus Andronicus

Henry IV Part One

As You Like It

Measure for Measure

Henry IV Part Two

Henry IV Part One

Henry IV Part One

King Lear

The Taming of the Shrew

Henry IV Part One

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Macbeth

Henry IV Part One

All’s Well That Ends Well

Henry IV Part One

King Lear

From Romeo and Juliet

Why he's a man of wax

When good manners shall lie all in one or two man's hands and they unwashed too, tis a foul thing

You kiss by the book

He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not, the ape is dead

She speaks yet she says nothing

The very butcher of silk button

He is not the flower of courtesy

Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat

You ratcatcher

A dog, a cat, a mouse, a rat to scratch a man to death

A plague on both your houses

Despised substance of divinest show

Hang, beg, starve, die in the streets

Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death