Shakespeare's Proverbial Language: An Index

Shakespeare’s Proverbial Language: An Index, by R. W. Dent, offers the most comprehensive revision to date of M. P. Tilley’s *Dictionary of the Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries* (1950) and its influential “Shakespeare Index.” Tilley’s pioneering work, which indexed thousands of proverbial allusions in Shakespeare, became an indispensable tool, though often misapplied or used uncritically in editions. Dent builds on Tilley’s foundation while also incorporating t...