In 1944, Shakespeare scholar T.W. Baldwin noted that Baret's Alvearie was the standard dictionary of the day and that Shakespeare would have ''turned many a time and oft to Baret for his varied ...

Word of “Shakespeare’s dictionary” spread like a virus on Twitter. But skepticism spread almost as fast, at least among literary scholars.

An Annotated Elizabethan Dictionary Comes to Light. By George Koppelman and Daniel Wechsler. Axletree. Second edition, Revised and Expanded. 417 pp. Paperback, $35. Comments.

Scholars say that William Shakespeare used as many as 30,000 different words in his plays and poetry. They further estimate that he knew about a quarter of all the words circulating in English ...

The University of Delaware Library has announced a Shakespeare series talk, “Two Booksellers Make a Discovery: Turning The Pages of Shakespeare’s Dictionary,” at 4:30 p.m., on Tuesday, Oct. 25, in the ...

The permanent exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library celebrates the playwright with its world-class collection of First ...

Shakespeare's Beehive (registration required to view Shakespeare's dictionary) Folger Shakespeare Library , Washington, D.C. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust , Stratford-Upon-Avon, England ...

By last week Anderson Baten had finished writing into his 1,500,000 word Complete Dictionary every last scrap of information about Shakespeare he could lay his hands on.

The two are so convinced their secret copy is Shakespeare’s dictionary that they released their own 300-page hardcover called “Shakespeare’s Beehive” to argue the point.

Scholars say that William Shakespeare used as many as 30,000 different words in his plays and poetry. And it's not just any guide: This is William Shakespeare’s dictionary, owned and annotated ...

Scholars say that William Shakespeare used as many as 30,000 different words in his plays and poetry. And it's not just any guide: This is William Shakespeare’s dictionary, owned and annotated ...