Book description
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. 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.
