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Genre/Form: | Dictionaries Quotations Dictionaries |
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Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Reginald Foakes; Mary Foakes |
ISBN: | 0231104340 9780231104340 |
OCLC Number: | 60159563 |
Description: | 534 pages : notes, references, indexes |
Responsibility: | Reginald Foakes (editor, Professor of English Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles, USA) ; Mary Foakes (editor, former Librarian, Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon). |
Abstract:
In this topically arranged collection of Shakespeare quotations, the largest of its kind, writers and speakers can find not only an excellent saying on any of 600 subjects, but can be assured of the right wording and the precise source: play, act, scene, line, and character speaking.
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The Foakes have added an innovation to their topical dictionary of Shakespeare quotations... a note to each quote to explain its context. This feature will help speakers who are looking for an apt quote to illustrate a point... The Shakespeare topical dictionary of choice. Rettig on Reference Recommended for all libraries. Choice Read more...
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