Software for Quote Enthusiasts
|
Bestselling and bargain books: Quotations Dictionary
|
|
Books -> Quotations Dictionary
The Columbia Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations
 |
by:
Shakespeare, William
Foakes, Mary
Foakes, R. A.
|
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Published: June 15, 1998
ISBN: 0231104340
Format:Hardcover
Pages:516
|
Read More, Buy It
|
Book Description
From School Library Journal
Grade 8 Up-The editors' intention in this necessarily limited collection of quotations is to put the excerpts into the context of the original lines in the plays or sonnets from which they have been taken. The book is
organized by topics ("Age," "Duplicity," "Fish"), followed by passages of about five or six lines. After each selection, the citation, the character, and usually the context of the lines are given. If a reference is obscure, the explanation is more
elaborate. Indexes provide access by play and poem, by character, and by keyword. While the explanations of context are useful, this is a secondary reference tool. Some of the best known quotations are hard to find. "Double, double, toil and trouble..."
is found in the keyword index only under "Double," which most people routinely mix up with "bubble"; it is listed in the topic index under "Occult" rather than the more ordinary "magic" or "spells." The topics are cross-referenced, but the use of both
"Avarice" and "Greed" to split up a total of three quotes seems awkward and unnecessary. This is unlikely to be the first choice of novice scholars.
Sally Margolis, Barton Public Library, VT
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information,
Inc.
Product Description:
Because his plays, poems, and sonnets are inexhaustible sources of insight into the human condition, Shakespeare is the most quoted--and probably also the most misquoted--writer in the English language. 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. And if they remember a wonderful passage but forget who said it and in which play, a keyword index will lead them directly to the passage in question and provide the answer.
Read More, Buy It
|
|
