The Little Book of Shakespeare's Insults: The Bard's Best Barbs

By: Orange Hippo!

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911610740
• ISBN13: 9781911610748
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Orange Hippo!
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.5" x 5.5"
• Age Range: 15 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 10 and higher