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 a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood, Shakespeare didn't.
Orange Hippo! The little book of shakespeare's insults: biting barbs and poisonous put-downs, hardcover/***
