I love this Shakespeare Insult Kit. Common expletives can only be as original as your Quiapo deebeedees. So if you’re looking for some insults that’d make you sound like you came from Elizabethan times, try fidgeting with the list.
I’m not sure if all those words in the list really occur in Shakespeare. They probably do. As far as I know “craven” and “rough-hew” occurred in Hamlet and “hedge-pig” occurred in Macbeth. (Correct me if I’m wrong Shakespeare geeks.)
As a language major, the list also illustrates Saussurean concepts of syntagm (word order) and paradigm (word choice) in sentence construction. Hehe. So this may just as well be a sign of the type of materials I’ll be giving my future students victims.
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