1. Shakespeare Week 2016 Shakespeare knew how to write an insult or twenty! Check this out from his play Pericles “Thy food is such As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.” Or this one from King Lear (said by the King to his own daughter!) “Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood!”

2. Shakespeare Week 2016 You can create your own Shakespearean insults using the following slides! Start your insult with the word ‘Thou’ then pick a word from the next three slides, write them down and test them out with your friends! What are you waiting for thou infectious, half-faced, foot-licker!

3. Shakespeare Week 2016 – word 1 artless, bawdy, beslubbering, bootless, churlish, cockered, clouted, craven, currish, dankish, dissembling, droning, errant, fawning, fobbing, frothy, gleeking, goatish, gorbellied, impertinent, infectious, jarring, loggerheaded, lumpish, mangled, mewling, paunchy, puking, puny, rank, reeky, roguish, spleeny, spongy, surly, tottering, unmuzzled, vain, venomed, villainous, warped, wayward, weedy, yeasty, Pick your first word thou goatish flap-mouthed, miscreant!

4. Shakespeare Week 2016 – word 2 beef-witted, beetle-headed, boil-brained, clapper- clawed, clay-brained, common-kissing, crook-pated, dismal-dreaming, dizzy-eyed, dog-hearted, dread- bolted, earth-vexing, flap-mouthed, fly-bitten, fool- born, full-gorged, guts-griping, half-faced, hasty- witted, hedge-born, hell-hated, idle-headed, knotty- pated, milk-livered, motley-minded, onion-eyed, plume-plucked, pox-marked, reeling-ripe, rough-hewn, sheep-biting, spur-galled, swag-bellied, tardy-gaited, tickle-brained, toad-spotted, weather-bitten, Pick your second word thou mangled, fly-bitten, codpiece!

5. Shakespeare Week 2016 – word 3 apple-john, bagbarnacle, boar-pig, bugbear, canker- blossom, clack-dish, clotpole, coxcomb, codpiece, death-token, dewberry, flap-dragon, flax-wench, flirt- gill, foot-licker, giglet, gudgeon, haggard, harpy, hedge- pig, horn-beast, hugger-mugger, lewdster, lout, maggot-pie, malt-worm, measle, minnow, miscreant, moldwarp, mumble-news, nut-hook, pigeon-egg, pignut, puttock, pumpion, ratsbane, scut, skainsmate, strumpet, vassal, wagtail, Pick your third word thou droning, pox marked, flap-dragon!

6. Shakespeare Week 2016 How did you get on thou lumpish, motley- minded, harpy! Send your best insults to us at beyondthebook@suffolklibraries.co.uk or tweet them to @SuffolkLibrary beyondthebook@suffolklibraries.co.uk