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Shakespeare's Language
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Eugene F. Shewmaker is a retired editor of dictionaries and other reference books. He earned an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama and pursued an interest in theater. He lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

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...the essential companion for anyone seeking the immeasurable pleasures of Shakespeare. - Booklist

...the essential companion for anyone seeking the immeasurable pleasures of Shakespeare. - Booklist

Shewmaker, a retired editor of reference books with a background in drama, aims here to define succinctly and in a basic way over 15,000 words found in Shakespeare's plays and poetry. Every entry includes an in-context quotation showing how the word or phrase was used by Shakespeare. Though many of the work's entries are also found in such standard reference sets as the Oxford English Dictionary and/or C.T. Onion's A Shakespeare Glossary (Oxford Univ. Pr., 1986. rev. ed.), it is unique enough in its coverage that libraries supporting Shakespeare studies will want to consider it. "Mixed," for example, is not even included in Onion's glossary, and Shewmaker includes more geographical/ mythological entries than Onion. This set is more accessible than the other two because its intended audience is the general reader rather than the specialist. Students will prefer it over Onion's sometimes arcane work and the large, heavy, often fairly technical, and multivolumed OED.‘Peter A. Dollard, Alma Coll. Lib., Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

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