Here is another source that I've had on my bookshelf since 1995: Wayne F. Hill and Cynthia J. Öttchen, Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit (Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1995). It lists the insults in each play, providing act, scene, and line, then offers 20 pages of "ready insults for particular occasions" categorized by type of jibe or slur ("foul emanations," "boors and bores") and easily accessible for consulting whenever some coxcomb arouses your scorn.
“The bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with pudding in his belly.”
Few things are as hilarious as Prince Hal cracking on Falstaff, and I believe the fat man scored some points himself.
These are great, definitely saving. I found myself partial to the Iliad's "dogface". Also pretty funny that loyal dogs were being used as an insult when so much was about loyalty back then, and that the insult has fallen out of favor now that loyalty means a rewards points program.
Here is another source that I've had on my bookshelf since 1995: Wayne F. Hill and Cynthia J. Öttchen, Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit (Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1995). It lists the insults in each play, providing act, scene, and line, then offers 20 pages of "ready insults for particular occasions" categorized by type of jibe or slur ("foul emanations," "boors and bores") and easily accessible for consulting whenever some coxcomb arouses your scorn.
“The bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with pudding in his belly.”
Few things are as hilarious as Prince Hal cracking on Falstaff, and I believe the fat man scored some points himself.
Henry IV is a comedy classic!
These are great, definitely saving. I found myself partial to the Iliad's "dogface". Also pretty funny that loyal dogs were being used as an insult when so much was about loyalty back then, and that the insult has fallen out of favor now that loyalty means a rewards points program.