Insults, Shakespeare style.

From the Shakespeare's Insults calendar:

I think you are all mated* or
stark mad.
(The Comedy of Errors 5.1.282)
*stupified

The Duke of Ephesus to a group of people for whom a case of mistaken identity has caused mass confusion.


Snakes, in my heart-blood
warmed, that sting my heart!
(The Tragedy of King Richard the Second 3.2.131)

King Richard the Second,of his treasonous followers.


Milk-livered man,
That bear'st a cheek for blows, a
head for wrongs...
(King Lear 4.2.50-51)

Goneril, of her father, Lear.