Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary, Paperback - David Crystal

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New edition of the Oxford Junior Illustrated Dictionary with over 7000 cross curricular words to build vocabulary and language skills. Includes sim...

Compiled by one of the best-known authorities on the bard's works, this dictionary offers up-to-date information on all aspects of Shakespeare in h...

David Crystal's A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics has long been the standard single-volume reference for its field. Now available in its si...

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DescriptionHamlet is the most studied and performed of Shakespeare's tragedies. This accessible introduction offers a springboard into the play, ta...

Does txtng spell the end of literacy? David Crystal looks at the evidence, investigating how txtng began, what it is, why it's used, and how it wor...

Shakespearean author and actor Ben Crystal gives a unique introduction to A Midsummer Night's Dream with guidance on what to think about before, du...

An enthusiastic and practical approach to language learningA riveting and valuable combination of David Crystal's language expertise and Geoff Bart...

Subtitled, }How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning & Languages Live Or Die{. In this fascinating study, David Crystal answers every question on th...

In Making Sense, David Crystal confronts the foe of many: grammar. Once taught relentlessly to all students in the English-speaking world, grammar ...

An exploration of why and how we pronounce words in English why we do, drawing on pop culture and history to make the phonetics, linguistics and ph...

The King James Bible has contributed more to English than any other source. In this enlightening book David Crystal asks why. He looks at how its w...

The third volume in David Crystal's classic series on the English language combines the first history of English punctuation with a complete guide ...

A journey through English spelling, untangling the fascinating origins of its greatest eccentricities. From the English language expert David Cryst...

The author explains structure and then shows how it works in different language contexts - the literary, the non-literary, the spoken and the writt...

The best-selling grammar reference - essential for all teachers and students of English. It provides an effortless tour through the structures and ...

Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through...

A short introduction to King Lear by Shakespearean author and actor Ben Crystal giving insights before during and after you see or study the playPu...

Coriolanus is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. Part of the acclaimed Oxford School Shakespeare series, this edition i...

A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we...

DescriptionEdited by the eminent A.R. Braunmuller, this thorough edition of King John--the first scholarly edition in almost fifteen years--makes a...

Henry V is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists and...

Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film. This new and innovative edition rec...

Written in 1595, Richard II occupies a significant place in the Shakespeare canon, marking the transition from the earlier history plays dominated ...

DescriptionGiven the wealth of formal debate contained in this tragedy, Troilus and Cressida was probably written in 1602 for a performance at one ...

Love's Labour's Lost is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, read...

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DescriptionNow in its third edition, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language provides the most comprehensive coverage of the history, st...

Thought to be Shakespeare's earliest surviving play, The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy filled with passionate lovers, women disguised as men,...

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This edition in the Oxford Shakespeare series completes the trilogy of Henry VI plays. In his introduction Michael Taylor considers the implication...

This new edition of one of Shakespeare's greatest history plays offers a freshly considered text fully alert to its intense theatrical aspects. A h...

Shakespeare's Henry VI plays dramatize contemporary as much as Elizabethan issues: the struggle for power, the manoeuvres of politicians, social un...

This new edition is based on the 1623 First Folio text and challenges conventional thinking about the nature and relationship of the earliest texts...

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DescriptionWhen a new play was required at short notice for a court occasion in 1597, Shakespeare created The Merry Wives of Windsor, a warm-hearte...

After encountering the ghost of his father on the castle parapet, Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, is convinced that his father's death was part of a...

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DescriptionOne of Shakespeare's most rollicking and beloved comedies, The Taming of the Shrew was also one of his earliest, probably written about ...