An interesting story from the Folger Shakespeare Library about the claimed discovery of Shakespeare’s dictionary – an annotated copy of John Baret’s Alvearie. The claim is not just that Shakespeare used the dictionary, which is well-known, but that this was his personal copy.

You can read more about the project of publishing this dictionary at the Shakespeare’s Beehive website, and read the book itself – Shakespeare’s Beehive: An Annotated Elizabethan Dictionary Comes to Light – there too. The hardcopy is expensive, but there is a reasonably priced e-book.

Thanks to Jeffrey Jerome Cohen for the link.