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Brush Up Your Shakespeare! [Hardcover]

Michael Macrone (Author)

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Publication Date: August 11, 1998

The San Francisco Chronicle called this entertaining and informative guide to the Bard's most famous and quotable expressions "delightful...a gem." From "salad days" to "strange bedfellows," the remarkable legacy of William Shakespeare lives on in our everyday vocabulary. Each entry includes the original meaning of the word or expression, the play or poem in which it appears, which character spoke it, and how it is used today. Cross-referenced for easy use; black-and-white line drawings by Tom Lulevitch.

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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Gramercy; 2nd edition (August 11, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0517189356
ISBN-13: 978-0517189351
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces

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4.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful addition to Shakespeare literature, August 7, 1999

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This short little tome is a wonderful and welcome addition to the body of literature that reviews and analyzes the Bard's work. It is not a deep analysis, by any means. But it makes a nice read in the sub-catagory of Shakespearean trivia. The book lists dozens of phrases common to our language, and gives a quick review of the quip's context in the play, followed by a critique of the modern usage of the same. A fun tribute to the continuing legacy of Bard's body of work.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Will, September 29, 2000

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This book proves it: William Shakespeare was a brilliant man. I'm a huge Shakespeare fan and I'd love to get the chance to meet Macrone. Brush Up Your Shakespeare is intelligently divided into sub sections including Famous Quotes, Words Coined by the Bard, Words often misattributed to Shakespeare, and Titles Borrowed From Shakespeare. Not only is this book easy to read, it also is concise. It's great for a student who's just curious to learn a little more about Will, who doesn't have the time to pore over hundreds of research papers on him. It was also extremely interesting to me (a Linguistics minor) because of all the lexicography. A great book to own--at a reasonable price!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Hit, a Very Palpable Hit
This book is a great introduction to various plays of Shakespeare. Each couple of pages consists, first of a few lines of a play or sonnet, and then a few paragraphs describing... Read more

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I enjoyed reading this book, very short, took less than an hour to read it, the author introduce the phrase in the context of the play including the passage where it's mentioned,... Read more

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First Sentence:
The idea that "all the world's a stage" was already cliched when Shakespeare wrote As You Like It. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Brush Up Your Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth, Julius Caesar, King Lear, King Claudius, Marc Antony, King Duncan, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, King Henry, King John, Henry the Fourth, Prince Hamlet, Duke of Gloucester, Henry the Sixth, Knock Knock, Player Queen, Sir John Falstaff, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Let Rome, The Comedy of Errors, Hell Gate, King James, Queen Gertrude, The Past Is Prologue

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The Literature Teacher's Book Of Lists (J-B Ed: Book of Lists) by Judie L. H. Strouf on page 266, and Back Matter
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Literature Lover's Book Of Lists : Serious Trivia for the Bibliophile by Judie L. H. Strouf on page 277
Shakespeare for Kids: His Life and Times, 21 Activities (For Kids series) by Colleen Aagesen in Back Matter
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