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    Shakespeare's Words

Shakespeare's Words

Ben Crystal, David Crystal

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      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.
      CONTRIBUTORS: Ben Crystal, David Crystal EAN: 9780140291179 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 1259 g HEIGHT: 230 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-04-01 CITY: GENRE: DRAMA / Shakespeare, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, REFERENCE / Quotations WIDTH: 172 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      English, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary reference works

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      David Crystal is one of the most authoritative commentators on the English language, and amongst many other things a contributor to the Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. He lives in Anglesey, Wales. Ben Crystal, David's son, is an actor and lives in London (NW1). Stanley Wells, who has written the preface, is General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare and Associate Editor of the New Penguin Shakespeare series.

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      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.
      CONTRIBUTORS: Ben Crystal, David Crystal EAN: 9780140291179 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 1259 g HEIGHT: 230 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-04-01 CITY: GENRE: DRAMA / Shakespeare, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, REFERENCE / Quotations WIDTH: 172 cm SPINE:

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      English, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary reference works

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      David Crystal is one of the most authoritative commentators on the English language, and amongst many other things a contributor to the Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. He lives in Anglesey, Wales. Ben Crystal, David's son, is an actor and lives in London (NW1). Stanley Wells, who has written the preface, is General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare and Associate Editor of the New Penguin Shakespeare series.

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