Términos relacionados con los libros / Terms related to books

 

Términos relacionados con los libros

Tejuelo: Cuadro de papel o piel que se adhiere al lomo del libro a modo de etiqueta para indicar el título, autor o signatura. Su función es la de identificar rápidamente la obra sin necesidad de extraerla del estante o abrirla.

Intonso: Es el ejemplar de una edición al que no le han sido cortadas las uniones de sus hojas que conformaban el pliego situadas en los cortes. Los libros intonsos adquieren por su escasez un grado de rareza que los hace más apetecibles para algunos bibliófilos ya que mantiene sus márgenes completos. El vocablo proviene del latín  intonsus, ‘sin cortar’, y antiguamente hacía referencia al cabello o barba que estaba sin cortar.

Colofón: Anotación manuscrita situada al final del libro, dedicada a dar información acerca de las circunstancias en las que fue producido, como el lugar de impresión o copia, nombre del impresor o copista, fecha, etc.  El término proviene del latín tardío colophon y este del griego kolophṓn, que hacía referencia a una cumbre o cima.

Did you know? William Shakespeare / Sabias que? Willian Shakespeare

 

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Did you know? William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's real name was Gulielmus Shakspere, which is the Latin word for William. He called himself 'Will' in his Sonnets and people referred to him as William Shakespeare, so it's safe to say that this was his name.

Shakespeare's death is a mystery. It's been speculated that he died of syphilis or even that he was murdered. People say he likely died 23rd April 1616 – his 52nd birthday.

His father was John Shakespeare, a leatherworker who specialized in the soft white leather used for gloves and similar items.

In 1582, William married a farmer’s daughter called Anne Hathaway. She was 26 and three months pregnant with Shakespeare’s child when they married. They had three children together – a daughter called Susanna, and twins, Judith and Hamnet.

Written on Shakespeare’s gravestone in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, is a curse written by the famous wordsmith himself. It reads:
‘Good friend for Jesus’ sake forbear,
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And cursed be he that moves my bones.’

He was also an actor who performed in many of his own plays as well as those of other playwrights. There is evidence that he played the ghost in Hamlet and Adam in As You Like It.

Rumour has it that poet John Keats was so influenced by Shakespeare that he kept a bust of the Bard beside him while he wrote, hoping that Shakespeare would spark his creativity.

Shakespeare’s original grave marker showed him holding a bag of grain. Citizens of Stratford replaced the bag with a quill in 1747.

The plays performed at his theater, The Globe, featured unique special effects such as trap doors, actors lifted with wires, smoke, and fire. One of the special effects included firing a cannon, which set fire to the roof. The Globe theater was burned to the ground.

The shortest play by Shakespeare is The Comedy of Errors, at 1,770 lines long. His longest play is Hamlet which is 4,042 lines long.

Words related to the world of literature / Palabras relacionadas con el mundo de la literatura

 

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Words related to the world of literature

Agoraphobia: Fear of writing in general or handwriting specifically.

Librocubicularist: Person who reads in bed.

Logophobia: Unreasonable fear of words.

Metrophobia: Fear or unhealthy hatred of poetry.

Papyrophobia: Pathological fear of paper.

Scriptophobia: Fear of writing in public

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia: Fear of long words.

Verbophobia: Synonymous with logophobia, therefore, it is the fear of words.

Tsundoku: Japanese word indicating the act of leaving a book unread after purchasing it, usually in a pile with other unread books.