Author: Mary Foakes
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780760719039
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Centuries after they were written, the plays and poems of Shakespeare remain a deep well of inspiration. Using the authoritative Riverside Shakespeare as its primary source, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations from Shakespeare is an invaluable resource for writers, speakers, and readers seeking to tap that well ...
Author: G. and W. B. Whittaker
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: 2009-06
Total Pages: 670
ISBN-13: 9781104592196
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author: Peter Kemp
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004-10
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9780198609520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now available as part of the Oxford Paperback Reference series, this new expanded edition of Peter Kemp's acclaimed collection illuminates the world of the writer, from classical literature to crime fiction and from the quill to the PC. Organized by subject, it includes topics ranging from Tools of the Trade and Writer's Block to Ghost Stories and Critics. Shakespeare, Shaw, and Johnson have their say, but authors also include Alice Munro on Illustration and Pushkin on Earning a Living, A. D. Hope on Fables and Fairytales, Rimbaud on Baudelaire and Harold Pinter on Omission. New themes in this edition include Graffiti and Epitaphs, and there are many more quotations by writers on other writers: Ben Okri on Cervantes, Walter de la Mare on Lewis Carroll, and Philip Roth on William Faulkner. The long uphill struggle in playwriting is getting to the top of page one. - Tom Stoppard I'd love to write a book a year, but I don't think I'd have any fans. - Donna Tartt Lads don't write novels. They're down the pub. - Martin Amis on Ladlit You reach an age when every sentence you write bumps into one you wrote thirty years ago. - John Updike Reading . . . is a strenuous and pleasurable contact sport. - Maureen Howard There were no innocent blondes in crime fiction. - Ed McBain Never make your publisher pay the postage is the first rule of literary life. - Julian Barnes
Author: Alexander Schmidt
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-07-31
Total Pages: 730
ISBN-13: 0486130827
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume 2 of massive work by a leading Shakespeare scholar and lexicographer, a standard in the field, provides full definitions, locations, and shades of meaning in every word in Shakespeare's plays and poems.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-07-17
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1408143771
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Who said " Neither a lender nor a borrower be"? Who are the star-crossed lovers? Which Shakespearean lady protests "too much"? If you have ever been stuck trying to identify a Shakespearean quote then this is the book for you! With over 3,000 quotes from single lines to quite long extracts, organized by topic and by play, this is an essential book for anyone with an interest in Shakespeare. The key word index makes it easy to use and it also includes a glossary of unfamiliar terms and a brief biography of Shakespeare. The Dictionary is easy to dip into by word or theme (love, greed, disease, war etc) or by play, and the indexes allow readers to track down a half-remembered quote easily. An ideal companion for all students, teachers or performers of Shakespeare, this Dictionary is a useful and entertaining reference work.
Author: Ben Crystal
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2004-04-01
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 0141941529
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.