In my Previous Blog I waffled on about the origin of the phrase “It was a dark and stormy night….” and the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Since then I've been rooting around the contest site looking ...

Shakespeare uses Thersites to voice his most scathing commentary on war, love, and heroism. His insults, while comic, have a bitter truth underneath: strength without thought is worthless ...

The man loved snappy banter and wicked wisecracks so much that his plays are a master class in veiled and blatant insults. Not only are there a lot of words Shakespeare invented, but Shakespearean ...

William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays containing 20,000 to 30,000 words, depending on who’s doing the counting. Some of the words are evocative; some form turns of phrase still in use today; and ...

I first learned the pleasure of Shakespearean insults in ninth grade, when I was assigned to read “Henry IV, Part I.” My teacher was a gifted man named Greg Lombardo who instilled in our class ...

We at CNN thought it best to give you, gentle users, but a taste of how Wild Bill vented his inspired spleen on his fellow man with our Shakespearean Insult-O-Meter. Simply decide just how ...