Angrybk Posted February 7, 2023 Posted February 7, 2023 Inspired by my 6th grader daughter, who last Friday was “ugh, dad, this it s terrible, I have to come up with a list of ten Shakespearean insults by Monday!” “Hey no problem my beloved daughter, I just called my friend who’s an English prof who mostly teaches Shakespeare, here’s a big list, they’re pretty good!” “Ugh dad, you don’t know what it’s like!!!”
Angrybk Posted February 7, 2023 Author Posted February 7, 2023 A tun of man . . . that trunk of humors, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloakbag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with the pudding in his belly, that 470 reverend Vice, that gray iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years
Angrybk Posted February 7, 2023 Author Posted February 7, 2023 these strange flies, these fashion-mongers, these perdona-mi's, who stand so much on the new form, that they cannot at ease on the old bench? O, their bones, their bones!
Angrybk Posted February 7, 2023 Author Posted February 7, 2023 this leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, not-pated, agate-ring, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish-pouch
Rick Posted February 7, 2023 Posted February 7, 2023 In the days of old, when people were bold, and toilets were yet to be invented, ye simply dropped thy load beside the road, and walked away, contented.
Stuart Galbraith Posted February 8, 2023 Posted February 8, 2023 'Well a pish on you then!' Which is in the Branagh production of Henry V, I dont think its in the text. Although its very like something he would have wrote. There are quite some good ones in Henry IV as well. These lies are like their father that begets them, gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Why, thou claybrained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson, obscene, greasy tallow-catch—
Wobbly Head Posted February 8, 2023 Posted February 8, 2023 "Villain, what hast thou done?" Aaron: "That which thou canst not undo." Chiron: "Thou hast undone our mother." Aaron: "Villain, I have done thy mother." Shakespeare "Titus Andronicus" 4. act, scene 2
Rick Posted February 8, 2023 Posted February 8, 2023 23 minutes ago, Wobbly Head said: "Villain, what hast thou done?" Aaron: "That which thou canst not undo." Chiron: "Thou hast undone our mother." Aaron: "Villain, I have done thy mother." Shakespeare "Titus Andronicus" 4. act, scene 2 Winner! If you can call it that :0
sunday Posted February 8, 2023 Posted February 8, 2023 34 minutes ago, Stargrunt6 said: I really want to wish a pox on somebody. Vax them.
DB Posted February 8, 2023 Posted February 8, 2023 2 hours ago, Wobbly Head said: "Villain, what hast thou done?" Aaron: "That which thou canst not undo." Chiron: "Thou hast undone our mother." Aaron: "Villain, I have done thy mother." Shakespeare "Titus Andronicus" 4. act, scene 2 Who knew that "I've had yer mum" was Shakespearean? He doesn't quite stretch to "Yo momma's so fat..." but there is this one: "No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip, she is spherical, like a globe, I could find out countries in her. (The Comedy of Errors, Act 3, Scene 2)" From here: https://www.litcharts.com/blog/shakespeare/top-shakespeare-insults-of-all-time/
Angrybk Posted February 18, 2023 Author Posted February 18, 2023 On 2/8/2023 at 5:30 AM, DB said: Who knew that "I've had yer mum" was Shakespearean? He doesn't quite stretch to "Yo momma's so fat..." but there is this one: "No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip, she is spherical, like a globe, I could find out countries in her. (The Comedy of Errors, Act 3, Scene 2)" From here: https://www.litcharts.com/blog/shakespeare/top-shakespeare-insults-of-all-time/ Ok that one wins
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