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Shakespeare Proverbs; Or, The Wise Saws Of Our Wisest Poet, Collected Into A Modern Instance

Shakespeare Proverbs; Or, The Wise Saws Of Our Wisest Poet, Collected Into A Modern Instance

Cowden Clarke, Mary

Hardcover

Dictionaries & EncyclopediasGeneral World HistoryShakespeare

ISBN10: 935418927X
ISBN13: 9789354189272
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Nov 2 2020
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.46
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Shakespeare's wise saws, gathered and arranged for modern hands. Wisdom that still rings true. Mary Cowden Clarke's Shakespeare Proverbs is a careful shakespeare proverbs collection and literary quotations anthology born in nineteenth-century England. It groups classic poetry quotes and the pithy elizabethan proverbs that emerge throughout the plays into a clear, approachable order, making recurring themes and moral lessons from Shakespeare easier to find and reflect on. The Victorian sensibility that informs the arrangement lends warmth and practical clarity: entries serve as a compact english literature reference and a straightforward study aid for students. Dip in for a single line, follow a theme across entries, or keep this shakespearean wisdom book by your desk for quick access to observation and counsel. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Historically, Mary Cowden Clarke's works sit at the intersection of nineteenth-century England's taste for moral instruction and the era's desire to make Shakespeare intelligible for wider readerships; her arrangement is a vivid example of how victorian wisdom sayings reframed elizabethan material for everyday use. Casual readers will appreciate immediate access to memorable lines; classic-literature collectors will value the book's historical voice and usefulness as an english literature reference. Teachers and public speakers will find it a discreet source of apt lines for illustration, and bibliophiles will appreciate its witness to cultural reception. For readers seeking context, the arrangement suggests how later readers threaded Elizabethan proverbs into Victorian conversation, offering a compact lesson in reception without heavy apparatus. Presented with restraint and purpose, it makes a thoughtful gift for literature lovers and a reliable companion for study groups, essays, or anyone tracing the afterlife of Shakespearean phrasing.

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