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For a guy whose work gets quoted at weddings, taught in every high school English class, and treated like the pinnacle of sophisticated literature, William Shakespeare had an alarming habit of absolutely roasting people.
Long before Twitter arguments, Reddit insults, or YouTube comment sections, the Bard was calling people boils, cream-faced loons, puppy-headed monsters, and about a hundred other things that somehow sound even funnier in Old English. Turns out, beneath all the poetry and dramatic monologues was a man who simply loved talking smack.
Here are some of Shakespeare’s most gloriously unhinged lines.
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