Books in the Student Shakespeare Library series

Identifies musical terms found in the Shakespeare canon. This book, an A-Z of over 300 entries, includes a definition of each musical term in its historical and theoretical context, and explores the extent of Shakespeare's use of musical imagery across the full range of his dramatic and poetic work.

The law is a central theme in many of Shakespeare's plays and every play in the canon makes reference to legality or justice.

Focuses on Shakespeare's sexual language, some of which is notoriously difficult to unravel and whose roots go back into earlier literature. This is a comprehensive but concise reference guide to sexual language and imagery in Shakespeare.

Includes various types of non-standard and informal language, and lists the examples found in Shakespeare's works. These include dialect forms, colloquial forms, non-standard and variant forms, fashionable words, and puns.

The author makes use of scripts and scholarship about original stagings of Shakespeare and suggests how those productions related to modern staging.

More than just a book of definitions, this dictionary provides a comprehensive account of Shakespeare's portrayal of military life, tactics and technology.