The author of Brush Up Your Shakespeare! It's Greek to Me! and By Jove! reveals the many touchstone phrases and words from the Bible that are part of everyday speech, including book, song, and play titles.

Brush Up Your Bible!, 1st Edition

Michael Macrone

Tom Lulevitch

Religion & Spirituality

Harpercollins

Brush Up Your Shakespeare!

A Lively Compendium of Shakespeare's Wisest and Wittiest Words
From the doomed Othello, who first assumed a "foregone conclusion," to the impetuous Mercutio, who went off on the first "wild-goose chase," here are several hundred of the most famous lines and newly minted words from Shakespeare's canon. Each phrase is presented with background notes, explnations, and literary anecdotes that set it in its original context. With a new filmography of the finest Shakespeare movies, Brush Up Your Shakeapeare! is an accessible and entertaining guide for Bard aficionados and amateurs alike.
Did You Know?
<ul>
<li>The gargantuan Sir Falstaff was the first unwelcome guest to eat his hostess "out of house and home" </li>
<li>Juliet thought that parting from her Young Romeo was "such sweet sorrow" </li>
<li>Macbeth believed himself to be "a sorry sight" </li>
<li>It was Rosalind who desired "too much of a good thing" </li>
<li> Lady Macbeth realized that "what's done is done"</li>
</ul>

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

HarperPB

This third book in the successful Brush Up series is a fun and informative review of classical mythology.

By Jove! Brush Up Your Mythology

History & Criticism

A treasure trove of information about words and phrases that originated in Greek and Roman texts.

It's Greek to Me

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Harper Paperbacks

The bestselling author of Brush Up Your Shakespeare offers a fun and educational guide to the many obscure and unusual terms that writers often use, including "chaos theory, " "deconstruction, " "collective unconscious, " and "tabula rasa." Annotated reading lists and a supplementary list of "Pretty Good Thoughts" are also included. 40 illustrations.

Eureka!: What Archimedes Really Meant and 80 Other Key Ideas Explained

Perennial

A Lively Compendium of Shakespeare's Wisest and Wittiest Words
From the doomed Othello, who first assumed a "foregone conclusion," to the impetuous Mercutio, who went off on the first "wild-goose chase," here are several hundred of the most famous lines and newly minted words from Shakespeare's canon. Each phrase is presented with background notes, explanations, and literary anecdotes that set it in its original context. With a new filmography of the finest Shakespeare movies, Brush Up Your Shakeapeare! is an accessible and entertaining guide for Bard aficionados and amateurs alike.
Did You Know?
<ul>
<li>The gargantuan Sir Falstaff was the first unwelcome guest to eat his hostess "out of house and home" </li>
<li>Juliet thought that parting from her Young Romeo was "such sweet sorrow" </li>
<li>Macbeth believed himself to be "a sorry sight" </li>
<li>It was Rosalind who desired "too much of a good thing" </li>
<li> Lady Macbeth realized that "what's done is done"</li>
</ul>

Brush Up Your Shakespeare!: An Infectious Tour Through the Most Famous and Quotable Words and Phrases from the Bard

Fed up with the NHS? This work provides a way for patients to get their own back by reeling off some humorous one-liners all taken from Shakespeare's works. Set out in two parts, the book starts with a section of insults for particular occasions while the second part focuses on specialists.

Shakespeare's Insults for Doctors

Wayne F. Hill

Ebury Press

Naughty Shakespeare

Here are the lascivious lines, cuckolded characters, and politically incorrect notions of the baddest bard of all. Author Michael Macrone plumbs the depths of William Shakespeare's various and conflicted views on race, religion, government, culture, sex, and sexuality in concise, clear and hilariously scandalous explanations.

Gramercy

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