"Whoreson" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in Shakespeare's plays may be taken, perhaps, rather as an indication of the manners of the times than as an expression of his own feeling, but even so it must have been a little galling to the poorer of his auditors. "Whoreson dog," "whoreson peasant," "slave," "you cur," "rogue," "rascal," "dunghill," "crack-hemp," and "notorious villain"—these are a few of the epithets with which the plays abound. The Duke of York accosts ...
— Tolstoy on Shakespeare - A Critical Essay on Shakespeare • Leo Tolstoy |
