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The glossary provides guidance where i want guidance on shakespearean plays. An absolute treasure chest of shakespearean jewels. Go to the synopses of each play with the diagrams of the characters. A must for students and anyone with a love of shakesp... Read More
A complete dictionary for shakespeare's vocabulary, but also separate sections to explain topics like'money' or 'clothing' it has every word from shakespeare's plays in, tells you what plays that word is used in corresponding to what the word means in... Read More
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I was completely happy and satisfied with the product
There are also mini lessons on certain styles of speaking contemporary with the time and a potted history of each play
I studied shakespeare at school and uni and am familiar with the lingo however i find myself referring to this tome for the exa... Read More
Other reviewers have aptly described the excellent quality of this book but i just wanted to add a proviso unless i am missing ... Read More
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Other reviewers have aptly described the excellent quality of this book but i just wanted to add a proviso unless i am missing something the kindle adaptation is virtually unusable
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The text has been copied wholesale as if it were a novel unlike other kindle dictionaries i have used there is no way to look up entries
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You have to use the generic kindle search function which brings up every instance of the word in question in the book with no way of distinguishing the actual entry from the sometimes numerous other cases in which the same word appears as part of a quote listed under another entry
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Unless the word is very rare this results in an agonising and timeconsuming process every time you try to look something up
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One of the problems anybody who reads shakespeare finds are those words in the plays that are dated rarely used archaic or foreign
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This problem multiplies when the reader has not the english as his first language
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However these are sometimes not quite complete nor too accurate
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The conventional dictionaries do not hold all of shakespeare words
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