192 Pages
    by Routledge

    196 Pages
    by Routledge

    `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

    Preface I The Fatal Cleopatra II Romeo and Juliet III Richard the Second IV The Sonnets V Hamlet VI Macbeth VII The Winter’s Tale 1VIII A World of Words Index

    Biography

    Professor M M Mahood

    `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