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Shakespeare's Insults For Lawyers
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" (King Henry VI, Pt. II). More than enough insults for a week in the courtroom or a dark night of the legal soul, this collection of caustic diatribes about lawyers features the best from the poisoned pen of the most vituperative wit of all time. 20 line illustrations. National pulbicity.
80 pages, Hardcover
First published April 2, 1996
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August 11, 2016
First Let's kill all the Lawyers
Variations on this Shakespearean line almost always come up when the cultural elite meet. Making capital of that fact, the authors here have gathered all of the Bard's germane quotes together into one volume suitable for "gifting" to the lawyer of your choice. They have a similar volume for doctors if any of those are on your gift list.
Further cashing in on the "cultural fluency by proxy" market, they've even marketed a set of magnetic kits for crafting your own Elizabethan "mal mots."
This book is pretty much what you'd expect. Samples culled from the bard's various plays that touch upon all of those aspects that we love to hate in those that make being argumentative a way of life.
What I did not expect was that the authors have some obvious skill with words themselves and in several spots the interegna is well crafted and smile-inducing. At $12.50 USD for the small 80 page hard-cover edition, one might lament the cost but then... isn't that always a complaint with those involved in the legal field?
Variations on this Shakespearean line almost always come up when the cultural elite meet. Making capital of that fact, the authors here have gathered all of the Bard's germane quotes together into one volume suitable for "gifting" to the lawyer of your choice. They have a similar volume for doctors if any of those are on your gift list.
Further cashing in on the "cultural fluency by proxy" market, they've even marketed a set of magnetic kits for crafting your own Elizabethan "mal mots."
This book is pretty much what you'd expect. Samples culled from the bard's various plays that touch upon all of those aspects that we love to hate in those that make being argumentative a way of life.
What I did not expect was that the authors have some obvious skill with words themselves and in several spots the interegna is well crafted and smile-inducing. At $12.50 USD for the small 80 page hard-cover edition, one might lament the cost but then... isn't that always a complaint with those involved in the legal field?
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