Brush up on Shakespeare!
by Michael Macrone; Illustrated by Tom Lulevitch
- New York Harper & Row, Publishers 1990
- 235 p.
Includes Index
At first brush -- The quotable and the notable : famous phrases from Shakespeare -- "Household words" : common and uncommon words coined by Shakespeare -- Faux Shakespeare : phrases often misattributed to Shakespeare -- Good enough to call your own : titles borrowed from Shakespeare.
Discussion of Shakespeare's linguistic brilliance as a part of everyday vocabulary.
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Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Language --Quotations
English language --Terms and phrases.-- Early modern, 1500-1700