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A guide to Elizabethan syntax, grammar, and verse structure that explains the idiomatic usage used in Shakespeare's works.

Discusses the connections between politics, language, and race.

Looks at how William Shakespeare's plays were originally written and performed and the effect of his writings on society.

Explores Lewis Carroll's love of life and his creative use of words and phrases.

Designed for helping teaching the intermediate to advanced ESL student, this book uses phases and idioms found in Shakespeare's works and shows examples of how they can also be found in more modern works and even everyday conversation.

Looks at William Shakespeare and the way his use of words affected our use of the English language today, in the form of a narrative about the writer and his times with words and phrases highlighted that were first used by him, and informative parallel text about them.

Presents a comprehensive pocket guide to the fourteen languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth and contains a dictionary and English/Elvish glossary, rules of grammar and pronunciation, and how to write the Elvish alphabet.

Alphabetically arranged entries define more than 17,000 words, terms, and unfamiliar expressions used in the works of William Shakespeare.