In Search of Shakespeare’s Dictionary - Library

In Search of Shakespeare's

Dictionary

A Memoir

Jerry M. Rosenberg

Photo by Ellen Y. Rosenberg

Jerry M. Rosenberg is Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University. He was the 2010 Distinguished Faculty Award recipient, and was acclaimed by The New York Times as "The Leading Business and Technical Lexicographer in the Nation." He has written eight dictionaries and is consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary. He is author of thirty books and has devoted forty years to collecting antiquarian lexicons. He and his wife live in both New York City and Amherst, Massachusetts.

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FOR ELLEN. FIFTY-NINE YEARS OF TOGETHERNESS, SHARING THE CHALLENGES AND WONDERS OF THE WORLD.

YOU MADE IT ALL POSSIBLE. THANKS. WITH ALL MY LOVE.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION

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II. THE NEW YORK YANKEES.....AND THEN COLLEGE

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III. MODERN DICTIONARIES

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IV. NOAH WEBSTER

AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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V. OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY -

THE NEW OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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VI. THE BIRTH OF DICTIONARIES

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VII. DICTIONARIES COME TO ENGLAND

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VIII. LEXICONS AT SCHOOL IN SHAKESPEARE'S TIME

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IX. EUROPE BECKONS

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X. THOMAS COOPER AND HIS THESAURUS

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XI. SHAKESPEARE CRIBS FROM COOPER'S THESAURUS

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XII. THE SEARCH BEGINS

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XIII. EARLY ENGLISH LEXICONS

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A. CAWDREY'S TABLE ALPHABETICALL ? THE FIRST ENGLISH DICTIONARY

B. BULLOKAR - AN ENGLISH EXPOSITOR ? THE SECOND ENGLISH DICTIONARY

C. THOMAS BLOUNT'S GLOSSOGRAPHIA

D. PLAGIARISM CHARGES AGAINST EDWARD PHILLIPS

E. AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY OF ELISHA COLES

F. J.K.'S A NEW ENGLISH DICTIONARY

G. COCKER'S ENGLISH DICTIONARY

H. NATHAN BAILEY - AN UNIVERSAL ETYMOLOGICAL ENGLISH DICTIONARY

I. DYCHE AND PARDON - A NEW GENERAL ENGLISH DICTIONARY

XIV. DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON ? THE HARMLESS DRUDGE

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XV. FINGERPRINTS AND SIGNATURES

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XVI. FAMILY AND CAREER

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XVII. THE SEARCH CONTINUES IN LONDON

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EPILOGUE

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