Ebook: Shakespeare's Wordplay

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface page; The Fatal Cleopatra; Romeo and Juliet; Richard the Second; The Sonnets; Hamlet; Macbeth; The Winter's Tale; A World of Words; Index.;`Professor Mahood's book has established itself as a classic in the field, not so much because of the ingenuity with which she reads Shakespeare's quibbles, but because her elucidation of pun and wordplay is intelligently related both to textual readings and dramatic significance.' - Revue des Langues Vivantes.