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 ...

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', ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If it's real, it's the literary find of the century. New York antiquarian booksellers Daniel Wechsler and George Koppelman believe they ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. On April 6, the final day of the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, Daniel Wechsler, an exhibitor, asked me if I was free for dinner on ...

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 ...

Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary: Oxford University Press, 352 pages, `500. For years now, scores of books and websites have all claimed to be the authoritative guides to the world (and words ...

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 ...