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About the Book |
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Shakespeare's Words was published by Penguin Books in hardback (UK) and paperback (US) in 2002. A UK paperback edition was published on 23 April 2004. It consists of the following elements, all of which have been incorporated into the present website. |
- Preface, by Stanley Wells
- Introduction
- Abbreviations, symbols, and conventions
- List of Glossary Panels, distributed throughout the A-Z section
- Frequently Encountered Words
- A to Z
- Shakespearean Circles, Synopses, and Dramatis Personae
- Text Chronology
- List of Characters' Names
- Appendices of Beings, Times, Places, Languages and Dialects
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The content of the website database differs in two main respects:
Because of space limitations, the book was able to include no more than six quotations from the plays/poems to illustrate each of the words and senses contained in the Glossary. The website contains all relevant quotations for each word and sense - around 50,000 in total.
It includes a fullly searchable text of the plays and poems, so that any word or string of words can be found, not just those contained in the Glossary.
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