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The Shakespeare Miscellany
The Shakespeare Miscellany
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Author: David Crystal, Ben Crystal Publisher: Penguin Format: Hardcover # of Pages: 214 Pub. Date: 2006 ISBN-10: 0140515550 ISBN-13: 9780140515558
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About the Book:
In the best tradition of
sound-bites and pithily entertaining witticism, Ben Crystal
and David Crystal,
the father and son authors
of The Shakespeare
Miscellany, gather
together essential facts and fascinating insights about William
Shakespeare — probably the most famous writer of all time — and
the world in which he lived and worked.
This compilation, in the tradition of the Victorian miscellany,
gathers together essential facts and fascinating insights into the
plays and poems, the man behind them (insofar as this is known), and
the context in which he worked. Put together by an actor and a
linguist, The Shakespeare Miscellany is quirky, illuminating
and endlessly interesting. Topics covered include lost plays, what he
would have studied at school, Shakespeare's pronunciation, why the
Globe burned down and the difference between a Folio and a Quarto.
About the Author:
David Crystal is a writer
and lecturer on the English
language, with a worldwide reputation and over 100 books to his name.
He is honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Wales,
Bangor, and in 1995 was awarded the OBE for services to the English
language, and was made a
Fellow of the British Academy in 2000.
Ben Crystal
graduated from Lancaster University and has trained and worked as an
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David Crystal & Ben Crystal
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