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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 inspired originator of compounds ( cloud-capp'd towers; home-keeping wits), Shakespeare created no fewer than 273 for anatomy alone, cited with almost palpable enthusiasm by Professor Spevack.
In the merest quibble, the word limbeck ( Macbeth , I, 7) is missing from Professor Spevack's compendium, although it appears to be standard usage in most editions of Macbeth.
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.
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.