"This book is for people who love Shakespeare, or love language, or both. David Crystal, one of the world's foremost authorities on the English language, with his actor son, Ben, have taken a fresh look at the vocabulary of Shakespeare's poems and plays and compiled a glossary o…
This work helps to decipher Shakespeare's words and phrases, especially those frequently misunderstood by, or incomprehensible to, the modern reader.
Contains a Shakespearean glossary, plot synopses of Shakespeare's plays, diagrams of the characters' relationships, a chronology of his works, a list of characters, and notes on the mythological, religious, and historical figures appearing in the plays.
Shakespeare's words: a glossary and language companion
by Crystal, David, Crystal, Ben
fromPenguin books
"This book is for people who love Shakespeare, or love language, or both. David Crystal, one of the world's foremost authorities on the English language, with his actor son, Ben, have taken a fresh look at the vocabulary of Shakespeare's poems and plays and compiled a glossary o…
This work helps to decipher Shakespeare's words and phrases, especially those frequently misunderstood by, or incomprehensible to, the modern reader.
"This book is for people who love Shakespeare, or love language, or both. David Crystal, one of the world's foremost authorities on the English language, with his actor son, Ben, have taken a fresh look at the vocabulary of Shakespeare's poems and plays and compiled a glossary o…