Brush Up Your Shakespeare! [Paperback]

Michael Macrone (Author), Tom Lulevitch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1994

The author of It's Greek to Me and By Jove! takes readers on a lively tour through Shakespeare's most famous and quotable words and phrases, presenting several hundred of the Bard's lines, complete with background information, explanations, and literary anecdotes that set the phrases in their original contexts. 40 line drawings.

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"Delightful...A gem." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"This is the perfect way to sound great at academic cocktail parties....A painless and fun way to broaden your knowledge." -- -- Dallas Morning News

About the Author

Michael Macrone is the author of nine entertain-ing guides to literary and intellectual history. His specialties include the Shakespeare canon, classical writings, mythology, the Bible, and great ideas. He lives in San Francisco, California.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins (January 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 006272018X
• ISBN-13: 978-0062720184
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,829,833 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A must for the high school English teacher. Filled with hundreds of quotes that are easy to find. I use it constantly when teaching Macbeth in 10th grade and Hamlet in 12th. And...I love it just for looking up what Shakespeares has to say on specific topics. So much of our language is made up of phrases that Shakespeare penned. Yipee!