A Shakespeare Glossary

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A Shakespeare Glossary is a justly famous aid to the study of Shakespeare.
Compiled originally by C. T. Onions, one of the editors of the Oxford
English Dictionary, it concentrates on elucidating those words whose
senses or connotations would be unfamiliar to a modern reader; dialect
forms, idioms, and colloquial phrases receive special attention. Original
in many of its explanations, and illuminating in its definitions, the
Glossary brings out 'the richness and subtlety of Elizabethan English'
that Onions so keenly appreciated.
A new revision of the book is long overdue: since the second (revised)
edition appeared in 1919, many important facts about the meanings of
words in Shakespeare have been uncovered; previous interpretations
have been altered; earlier problems have been resolved. Since then,
moreover, two highly accurate, computer-based concordances of Shake-
speare's works have appeared, making every occurrence of each word
immediately accessible for... Tovább

Fülszöveg

A Shakespeare Glossary is a justly famous aid to the study of Shakespeare.
Compiled originally by C. T. Onions, one of the editors of the Oxford
English Dictionary, it concentrates on elucidating those words whose
senses or connotations would be unfamiliar to a modern reader; dialect
forms, idioms, and colloquial phrases receive special attention. Original
in many of its explanations, and illuminating in its definitions, the
Glossary brings out 'the richness and subtlety of Elizabethan English'
that Onions so keenly appreciated.
A new revision of the book is long overdue: since the second (revised)
edition appeared in 1919, many important facts about the meanings of
words in Shakespeare have been uncovered; previous interpretations
have been altered; earlier problems have been resolved. Since then,
moreover, two highly accurate, computer-based concordances of Shake-
speare's works have appeared, making every occurrence of each word
immediately accessible for investigation and comparison. The benefits
of all these advances are incorporated in Professor Eagleson's revised
and enlarged third edition of the Glossary.
Robert D. Eagleson is Associate Professor of Early English Literature
and Language at the University of Sydney.
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Troilus and Cressida Edited by Kenneth Muir
Julius Caesar Edited by Arthur Humphreys
Titus Andronicus Edited by Eugene M. Waith
'a triumph of editorial planning. . . . not simply a better text but a new con-
ception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century
scholarship/ Nigel Alexander, Times Literary Supplement Vissza