Illustrated for those who believe that a picture is worth a thousand insults, Shakespeare's Insults for Lawyers offers over 190 of the funniest, most offensive

The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare's World explores Shakespeare's complex art of insults and shows how the playwright set abusive words at the heart of many

Patients looking to vent their spleen on their doctors, and doctors eager to do the inverse, in verse, will find all the bilious verbal abuse they need in this

Office politics--the uses of verbal infective to survive in business--is yet another field in which Shakespeare was master. Quill pens and disk drives may come

Why are certain words used as insults in Shakespeare's world and what do these words do and say? Shakespeare's plays abound with insults which are more often me