Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language Book

From amphibologia through onomatopoeia to zeugma, you too can master Shakespeare's 200 figures of speech.

Mark Van Doren - New York Herald Tribune

The importance of this book is that it makes clear what we ought to mean when we call Shakespeare an artist in language. [N]ot until now have modern readers been told how immense a thing rhetoric was in the Renaissance—how immense in scope, and how endlessly detailed in its numerous parts. Nor has it been apparent how thoroughly Shakespeare was master of this rhetoric. Few books about him will ever be more exciting.