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Jane Armstrong was born and brought up in North London. She was commissioning editor for the publishers of the Arden Shakespeare, working on their literature list and founding their list in media and cultural studies. She has worked on the Arden Shakespeare for a number of years, as copy-editor, and later as editorial series manager and commissioning editor for the current Third Series. The Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations contains approximately 3,000 quotations, both familiar and little-known, drawn from throughout Shakespeare's work, both plays and poems. The result is a rich and diverse collection that testifies both to the linguistic subtlety and the psychological insight displayed by this most protean of writers. The selection ranges from single lines containing a strikingly expressed thought or phrase, to longer extracts that convey the overwhelming beauty of Shakespeare's poetry, or the fluidity and complexity of his thought. The compilation is organized by topic, and supplemented by a detailed keyword index and a full glossary of unfamiliar terms. Table of ContentsPrefaceQuotationsLife of ShakespeareGlossaryTopic IndexKeyword IndexIndex of References to Plays
Synopsis
Do you often find yourself stuck for a pithy saying in any given situation? Do you have trouble wooing that special person? Are you ever stuck from an amusing comment to put in a greeting card? Have you ever lost face because you couldn't come up with the perfect witty response? Do you find yourself thinking 'what would Shakespeare have said?" If you've answered 'yes' to these questions, then The Arden Shakespeare Book of Quotations can help you. Learn how to impress your friends and loved ones with romantic verse, get ahead at work by following the Bard's advice, and answer your critics with cutting Elizabeth remarks.
Synopsis
In this enjoyable addition to the renowned Arden Shakespeare series, approximately 3000 quotations, both familiar and little-known, are drawn from throughout Shakespeare's work, both plays and poems. Quotations are selected for their intrinsic interest and organised by topic, as being both user-friendly and stimulating for the casual reader, with speaker and play reference, and with some annotation to give a context to the quotation. · Brief general introduction outlining the purpose and use of the volume · Shakespeare biography · Chronology of plays · Keyword index · Selections from Arden glossary