If you can't tell 'ear-kissing' from a 'bone-ache' while reading the works of William Shakespeare, a new dictionary may finally help you out. 'The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language', ...

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 during ...

George Koppelman and Dan Wechsler may have found the Holy Grail of rare books—a dictionary they claim was owned and annotated by William Shakespeare. If their assertion is true, this book could ...

TOMS RIVER – Most would find it hard to believe that anyone could stumble across William Shakespeare’s dictionary while trawling eBay, but two rare book dealers and Daniel Wechsler are convinced they ...

As birthday surprises go, this one’s a doozy. This week, just in time for William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, two rare-book dealers in New York City went public with the claim that they had come ...

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 ...

If I were to choose one word to describe the Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary, it would be - beautiful. This is one of the most beautiful books I have ever held in my hands! And as always ...

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One day in 1926 a husky corn-fed Texan named Anderson Baten retired to his Dallas cottage, opened the first volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and began reading about “AABENRAA, a town of Denmark.

“We organise dictionary quizzes across the country. We are also among the first publishers to bring out a Shakespeare dictionary,” said Priyadarshini Bhattacharyya, associate director, marketing, ...