The Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903436680 ISBN 13: 9781903436684

Publisher: Arden Shakespeare, 1999

Synopsis

Jane Armstrong was born and brought up in North London. She was commissioning editor for the publishers of the Arden Shakespeare, working on their literature list and founding their list in media and cultural studies. She has worked on the Arden Shakespeare for a number of years, as copy-editor, and later as editorial series manager and commissioning editor for the current Third Series.

The Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations contains approximately 3,000 quotations, both familiar and little-known, drawn from throughout Shakespeare's work, both plays and poems. The result is a rich and diverse collection that testifies both to the linguistic subtlety and the psychological insight displayed by this most protean of writers. The selection ranges from single lines containing a strikingly expressed thought or phrase, to longer extracts that convey the overwhelming beauty of Shakespeare's poetry, or the fluidity and complexity of his thought. The compilation is organized by topic, and supplemented by a detailed keyword index and a full glossary of unfamiliar terms.

 

 

 

Table of Contents

Preface

Quotations

Life of Shakespeare

Glossary

Topic Index

Keyword Index

Index of References to Plays

About this title

About the Author

Jane Armstrong is a freelance writer and copy editor.

From Booklist

The most frequently quoted (and misquoted) writer in the English language is well served by this compact collection of more than 3,000 quotations from his plays and poems, indexed by keyword, topic, and play title. Additional features include a glossary and a brief biography of the Bard. The text used is the 1998 Arden Shakespeare Complete Works, long a favorite of students as well as performers. The entries are arranged by topic, from Absence to Youth, and presented alphabetically by play title under each category. The act, scene, and line are indicated, as are the speaker and, when the excerpt is other than a soliloquy, the character spoken to. You may well ask, “Why another book of Shakespeare quotations?” In this case the question should be, “Why not?” With its modest price and carefully constructed indexes, The Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations is the place to “brush up your Shakespeare.” Smaller library collections that might not be able to afford other compilations of Shakespeare quotes would find this title a useful addition, and larger collections might want to add a circulating copy as well as one for reference use. --Carolyn Mulac

Edition details

• Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1903436680
• ISBN 13: 9781903436684
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408
• Editor: Duncan-Jones Katherine