A glossary of Tudor and Stuart words, especially from the dramatists

A scholarly glossary gathers rare and obsolete vocabulary used in English drama of the Tudor and Stuart periods, presenting alphabetically arranged entries with concise definitions, brief etymologies, and precise references to passages. Short illustrative quotations appear when needed to clarify uncommon senses, and many entries offer cross-references to dialect forms, Middle and Old English antecedents, and cognate foreign words. The editor supplements the original slips with additional citations and explanatory material, standardising entries and drawing on the New English Dictionary and dialect sources to make the lexicon more accessible to modern readers.