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A Shakespeare Glossary
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A justly famous aid to the study of Shakespeare, this glossary--originally compiled by C.T. Onions, an editor of the Oxford English Dictionary--clarifies those words in Shakespeare whose senses or connotations may be unfamiliar to the modern reader, paying special attention to dialect forms, idioms, and colloquial phrases. Original in its explanations and illuminating in i
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Paperback, 360 pages
Published
May 15th 1986
by Oxford University Press, USA
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A must have for readers and lovers of Shakespeare!
Students in my classes use this text when doing close reading of Romeo and Juliet and King Lear. I discovered it while attending a workshop for teachers run by the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
Jun 25, 2009
Redsteve
rated it
it was ok
Shelves:
british-isles,
elizabethan,
history,
nonfiction,
renaissance,
stewart-stuart,
tudor,
shakespeare,
reference
Very dry. Too much is focused on explaining jokes/references in the Bard's plays rather than Elizabethan language. Ah, well, Caveat Emptor. On the other hand, it's good enough for what it is.
Essential for any Shakespearean actor!
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