Shakespeare Dictionary

William Shakespeare is considered the greatest dramatist of all time. The language of this great writer, who is the creator of great tragedies such as Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as comedies such as A Midsummer Night, The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It, contains idioms that are incomprehensible or misunderstood for the modern reader today, dialect and slang usages in Elizabethan English, and It contains connotations specific to the period. The most striking feature of Shakespeare's texts is that a word with the same spelling is used with different nuances and even different meanings in different plays.
For this dictionary, all of Shakespeare's plays and poems, including The Two Noble Kinsmen, as well as Elizabethan slang, idioms and sayings, have been scanned, and the Turkish equivalents of nearly 20,000 words have been given, supported by examples. By showing the act, scene and line number of each word, the reader can directly access the usage of the words in the text. Known for his Shakespeare translations, Prof. This dictionary prepared by Özdemir Nutku is the most comprehensive dictionary in its field.



Number of Pages: 876

Year of Printing: 2008


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Kabalcı Publishing House

First Printing Year: 2008

Number of Pages: 876

Language: Turkish