Shakespeare A‐Z: Understanding Shakespeare's Words

At Brighton Grammar School in the early 1960s, our English master, Jack Smithers would shout, “Have you brought your Onions?” Charles Talbut Onions' (1873‐1965) A Shakespeare Glossary (1911) by 1986 went into a third revised edition edited by Robert D. Eagleson and published in paperback as well as hardback (Onions, 1986). Its aim was “to offer readers immediate and practical assistance at these crucial points where they are likely to be led astray or mystified” (p. I). In 2004 Penguin Books published David Crystal and Ben Crystal's Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion, all 676 pages,...