Little Book of Shakespeare's Insults

Away, you scullion, you rampallion, you fustilarian!

Along with penning some of the most sublime passages in all of English Literature, Shakespeare was a master when it came to casting a wicked comeback or hurling a barbed insult. Whether it''s Prospero calling Caliban a ''freckled whelp, hag-born'' in The Tempest or King Lear railing against his daughter Goneril with the damning words, ''Thou art...