Review (PDF) Shakespeare Lexicon And Quotation Dictionary, Vol. 2: 002
In more than 300 years of Shakespearean scholarship, only one book, the famous Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary, has investigated the meaning of every word that Shakespeare wrote. The lifetime work of Professor Alexander Schmidt of Königsberg, this book has long been the indispensable companion for every person seriously interested in Shakespeare, Renaissance poetry and prose of any sort, or English literature. It is really two important books in one.Schmidt’s set contains every single word that Shakespeare used, not simply words that have changed their meaning since the seventeenth century, but every word in all the accepted plays and the poems. Covering both quartos and folios, it carefully distinguishes between shades of meaning for each word and provides exact definitions, plus governing phrases and locations, down to the numbered line of the Cambridge edition of Shakespeare. There is no other word dictionary comparable to this work.Even more useful to the general reader, however, is the incredible wealth of exact quotations. Arranged under the words of the quotation itself (hence no need to consult confusing subject classifications) are more than 50,000 exact quotations. Each is precisely located, so that you can easily refer back to the plays or poems themselves, if you wish context.Other features helpful to the scholar are appendixes on basic grammatical observations, a glossary of provincialisms, a list of words and sentences taken from foreign languages, a list of words that form the latter part of word-combinations. This third edition features a supplement with new findings.
File Size: 7522 KB
Print Length: 738 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications; 3rd Rev and Enl ed. edition (July 31, 2012)
Publication Date: July 31, 2012
Sold by: Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00GG5YOEG
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This is, simply, the essential, definitive guide to the Bards language. Almost every word in every Shakespearean play is here, and instead of having to guess what the meaning is in relation to the play, each word is listed by play and meaning in each heading. It can even be used for other lexiconic purposes is you're having trouble trying to figure out what Shaw means in one of his passages from "Saint Joan", or Ibsen in "when We Dead Awaken". Unless they suddenly discover a new play by shakespeare, this reference will never go out of date.And hey, it's not called the "Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary (Vol. 2 N-Z)" for nothing, people. You're going to have to get the other one, but there's no real problem, because this is simply just the greatest lexicon ever for Shakespeare. Your search ends here if you ever need to understand the Bard words.
Have older beaten up copies of this highly respected tome on the Bard in two parts,A-M and N-Z. These two are headed for my new coffee table. They are never going to be opened if possible. Was lucky enough to find PDF versions of this wonderful and flawed reference onthe ol' WWW/Internet.So for real word searches it is the Control F on my computers. Believe me it is much faster thanSchmidt's Lexicon.Where art thou Romeo? Why romanticize?. I am behind the tree, Juliet. Not a family tree.Ophelia "If you bed me you wed me". Hamlet "Get thee to a nunnery" (not a brothel0. Be a virgin.The humorous night as in bile and phlegm (per recent lecture). Why not the night is humorous like in fun. We are together, Juliet. I am so happy I could bump elbows with you.These tomes were pristine to the bone.And never forget: beauty is only skin deep but ugly goes to the bone.Splendid is as splendid does. One of the Bard's great quotations.Summarizing: I stood on the shoulders of others because I was very short.
I got this so my daughter could research a role in Romeo and Juliet. Unfortunately, the Kindle edition is very hard to use. The text is dumped into an ebook format without any apparent effort spent to take advantage of the format. Finding simple phrases can be very painful.The content is there and the content is extensive, but accessing it is almost not worth the effort.
This is a great product. I'm very happy with my purchase. Prompt delivery. Great condition. I would definitely buy here again.This is a great product. I'm very happy with my purchase. Prompt delivery. Great condition. I would definitely buy here again.
Contains all of the expected information but it is not arranged in a way that makes it easy to locate specific quotations.
This two-volume compendium of Shakespeare's vocabulary is a great addition to my shelf of works by and about him. When in need of an explanation of why he used a certain word, this dictionary not only gives the definition as Shakespeare understood it but also gives all the plays in which that word appears. A very useful excursion into the Elizabethan language. My only complaint is that one needs a magnifying glass to read it.
I needed this for reinactment language practice. I look up the words from Shakespeares time and this is a golden nugget resource for me.Seller was great and got it to me in record time.
Lexicon are indispensable when working with Shakespeare. I've owned these before, but gave them to needy students. It paid off!
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