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Professor Spevack makes short shrift of the lengthy debate over Hamlet's I know a hawk from a handsaw (II, 2).
In Professor Spevack's concise (6 pp.) and witty Preface, he defines his broader purpose in compiling this treasury of Shakespeare's idiolect as an attempt to mirror, not only the figurative universe of Shakespeare's words, but the literal world of the Elizabethan age as well.
According to Professor Spevack, the word hint has no connotation of invitation or covert suggestion: it simply means cue or suggestion; but should not be construed in the modern sense of innuendo, or sly, or teasing, which it came to mean by the end of the 18th century.
Those who have always thought (or been taught) that Hamlet's Get thee to a nunnery rudely suggests that poor Ophelia hie herself to a brothel, Professor Spevack, ignoring Eric Partridge and other Shakespeare scholars, will have none of that interpretation.
An impressive and thoroughly engaging addition to Shakespeare scholarship, Professor Marvin Spevack's A Shakespeare Thesaurus deserves to take its place in the canon of eminently useful books about the world's greatest dramatist.