Shakespeare insults...Thou droning pox-marked lout!


#1

My wife teaches the 8th grade and does a unit on Shakespeare. This topic comes up every year. It is time to add some depth to your put downs.

Here is a website that has 50 of them in context:

Here is a better version of the generator as a PDF:

And here is an actual generator - Thou surly spur-galled pumpion!
http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html?

Enjoy.


#2

I use this sometimes in the beginning of the school year. I tell the students,
"It’s not polite to insult people but today you may go around insulting people if you ask their name first! I give each student a paper with three columns of insults they can string together, one from each column. Good fun.:sunglasses:


#3

These are brilliant, thanks for bringing them to my attention!