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After Shakespeare

John Gross

2002

Churchill's literary allusions

Darrell Holley

1987

Brewer's Quotations

Nigel Rees, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

1998

Word origins

Cecil Hunt

1962

Contemporary evidence of Shakespeare's identity

Richard Lewis Ashhurst

1903

The Literary Galaxy of Star Trek

James F. Broderick

2006

The rhetoric of imitation

Gian Biagio Conte

1986

The Facts on File dictionary of cultural and historical allusions

Sylvia Cole

2000

Jane Austen's art of memory

Jocelyn Harris

1989

Familiar allusions

William Adolphus Wheeler

1894

The Facts on File dictionary of 20th-century allusions

Sylvia Cole

1991

Allusions

Laurence Urdang, David M. Glixon, Frederick G. Ruffner

1986

Brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Ivor H. Evans

1989

The books at the wake

Atherton, James S.

1974

Literary Fragments in Judicial Remembrance

W. N. Osborough

2007

The Jonson allusion-book

Jesse Franklin Bradley

1922

Brewer's dictionary of phrase & fable

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

2005

A dictionary of Biblical allusions in English literature

Walter Benjamin Fulghum

1965

The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

1880

Sidelights on Charles Lamb

Bertram Dobell

1903

Tiger's heart

Jay Hoster

1993

Dictionary of foreign phrases and classical quotations

Hugh Percy Jones

1963

Shakespeare's centurie of prayse

Clement Mansfield Ingleby

1874

The reader's handbook of famous names in fiction, allusions, references, proverbs, plots, stories, and poems

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

1904

Dictionary of phrase and fable giving the derivation, source, or origin of common phrases, allusions, and words that have a tale to tell ..

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

1922

Possum and ole Ez in the public eye

Burton Raffel

1985

Brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable

Adrian Room

1995

Stories of great names

Charles Williams

1937

Shakespeare & Jonson

Gerald Eades Bentley

1945

A dictionary of word makers

Cecil Hunt

1949

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