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Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion

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 | #46636 in Books |  2002-12-31 |  2002-12-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.04 x1.56 x6.82l,2.69 | File type: PDF | 676 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Handy tool.|By Laura|Although one can never get quite as much out of reading Shakespeare (except for the sonnets) as on can from seeing his works performed, most of us cannot see performances of many of the plays even once, much less regularly, so we can only read them. And since it was written over 400 years ago and the English language has lost much of its formerly extensive|From Booklist|The main lexical references for Shakespeare scholars in the twentieth century were first Alexander Schmidt's two-volume Shakespeare Lexicon (1874) and later C. T. Onions' Shakespeare Glossa

A vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience. Displayed panels look at such areas of Shakespeare's language as greetings, swear-words and terms of address. Plot summaries are included for all Shakespeare's plays and on the facing page is a unique diagramatic representation of the relationships within each play.

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion   |  David Crystal, Ben Crystal. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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