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Shakespeare's brilliantly crafted insults and witty barbs could bring the fiercest soldier of Elizabethan London to tears. The Shakespeare Insults mug is covered with the Bard's funniest and most biting insults from his plays. 


The mug is adorned with 30 Shakespearean insults, including:



  • "Oh gull, O dolt, As ignorant as dirt"

  • "lump of foul deformity"

  • "Thou art a boil, a plague sore" and the puzzling

  • "Elvish-mark'd abortive, rooting hog."

  • "beetle-headed flap-ear'd knave"


The perfect gift for the sharp-tongued theatre fan. 

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