Lack of wit attracted some of the sharpest rebukes from Shakespeare’s charactersWilliam Shakespeare remains one of the greatest wordsmiths the world of literature has ever seen. Besides giving many new words to the English language, this sorcerer of words has left behind a rich legacy of verbal slights. If one were to document the myriad Shakespearean insults, he or she will be struck by their sheer ingenuity, humour and brutal candour. Lack of wit attracted some of the sharpest rebukes from Shakespeare’s characters. The speaker tells his verbal opponent that he could soon exhaust the latter’s bank of arguments and render his wit broke in no time.

Source: The Hindu July 17, 2021 19:30 UTC