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The Bard in Brief: Shakespeare in Quotations

“…When I reviewed The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare (Smith, 2016) ( RR 2016/255), I noted that “A casual search on ‘Shakespeare’ in Reference Reviews brought up 269 hits (averaging roughly one for every issue of the journal)”. Since that was published – in Volume 30(8) 2016, there have been a further eight hits (as at October 2017) – slightly over the average of one per issue, and yet, when I reviewed the dictionary of Shakespeare and National Identity (Ivic, 2017) ( RR 2017/190), I discovered that it was merely one of a whole series of Shakespearean dictionaries, none of which we had reviewed before.…”