Shakespeare's Words A Glossary and Language Companion

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Suitable for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by modern audience. It features different panels that look at such areas of Shakespeare's language as greetings, swear-words and terms of address.

Product details

• Authors: David Crystal, Ben Crystal, Stanley Wells, Crystal Ben
• Assisted by: Stanley Wells (Foreword)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.04.2004
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
• EAN: 9780140291179
• ISBN: 978-0-14-029117-9
• Pages: 676
• Dimensions (packing): 17.2 x 23 x 4.2 cm
• Subjects: English, William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, REFERENCE / Dictionaries, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, Marcus Aurelius, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Things fall apart, Literary, Kenneth Branagh, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Period Drama, Blood Brothers, Literary reference works, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Letters to a Young Poet, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, Nicholas Shakespeare, Macmillan Collector's Library, shakespeare complete works, shakespeare gifts, the lion and the unicorn, collins classics, gullivers travels, leon garfield shakespeare, hamlet william shakespeare, peter ackroyd shakespeare, macbeth text guide, much ado about you, bill bryson shakespeare, arden shakespeare, theatre for dreamers