Widely known to professional researchers, writers, and editors, Ruffner’s Allusions is a thematic dictionary that traces the cultural, literary, religious, and historical allusions found in the works of Shakespeare; the Bible and other religious texts; Greek mythology; American, European, and Eastern legends; and in music, the arts, business, comics, movies, radio, and television. Now in paperback for the first time, this new edition contains 3,500 new entries—making a grand total of 13,000 allusion entries divided into 730 thematic categories—and will be a helpful, authoritative resource for students and general readers interested in understanding the meaning of the many allusions found in everyday reading and speech.

Ruffner’s Allusions: Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary

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Urdang, Laurence

Ruffner Jr., Frederick G.

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Ruffner’s Allusions: Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary