A Dictionary of Quotations from Shakespeare: A Topical Guide to Over 3,000 Great Passages from the Plays, Sonnets, and Narrative Poems - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525934510 ISBN 13: 9780525934516

Publisher: Dutton Adult, 1992

Synopsis

A compendium of quotations from the works of Shakespeare features more than three thousand quotations, arranged into more than four hundred topics, many of them annotated with information on context, language, and history.

About this title

From Library Journal:

The focus of this entertaining dictionary, the authors say, is on "quotations that are likely to be of practical use for writers and speakers today . . . and relevant to modern times and present-day problems." Consequently, among the 400 categories are such headings as democracy, media, public relations, and Star Wars. Nearly half the quotations are annotated, with useful information about meaning and context, but the authors at times spoil it by giving vent to their own irrelevant opinions. They seem determined to demythologize the English victory at Agincourt described in Henry V ; their comment, "Lines that some in England might find applicable today" is a silly gloss on "This England that was wont to conquer others,/ Hath made a shameful conquest of itself." For public libraries.
- Bryan Aubrey, Fairfield, Ia.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0525934510
• ISBN 13: 9780525934516
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Miner Margaret, Rawson Hugh