The evolution of English pronunciation has eroded much of the evidence of the Bard’s wit—but a new approach aims to bring some of his original wordplay back to life. But! There’s another pun, too.

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 ...

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 ...