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Shakespeare's words : a glossary and language companion

by David Crystal, Ben Crystal, Stanley Wells

This glossary contains nearly 14,000 entries explaining words and meanings from Shakespeare's plays and poems. It focuses on linguistic differences between Elizabethan and modern English to assist readers with archaic vocabulary.

Accession 27540 ISBN 9780141007373 Publisher Penguin
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