If ever there was an all-encompassing author, it is Shakespeare, and this beautifully produced and abundantly illustrated miscellany of fascinating facts, definitions, and quotes is a worthy tribute to the Bard. With entries ranging from "apothecary" to "zephyr," this ingenious guide to the world of Shakespeare will show you what Hamlet's Ophelia has to do with The Tempest and Twelfth Night, and how a peculiar stage direction speaks to Elizabethan treatment of bears.