Peter Yapp
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Routledge & Kegan Paul
Pub. Date
1983
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" ... Arranged alphabetically according to place, and is designed to answer the question "Who said what about where?" It contains over 10,000 quotations in prose and verse, referring to both well and lesser known places and peoples throughout the world on obth local and national levels and drawn principally from English language sources from the fifteenth century to the present day ..."--Inside front cover.
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"SIGNATURE SHAKESPEARE SERIES Featuring remarkable laser-cut paper designs throughout, this new series offers stunning presentations of Shakespeare's plays, complete with scholarship, commentary, notes, and illustrated essays about Shakespeare's language and performances of the play. It's a keepsake package worthy of the greatest, and most loved, playwright in the English language. Each volume in the Signature Shakespeare series includes: - Illustration:...
3) Macbeth
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"Macbeth tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia, and he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler as he is forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion....