現代文化を刺激し続けるシェイクスピアと同時代人の膨大な言語を321万語ものコーパスを駆使して計量的に分析し、シェイクスピアの何がユニークだったのかを解き明かす、シェイクスピア研究者と英語学研究者には必携の画期的なアルファベット順の百科事典。The volume establishes in detail both what is unique about Shakespeare's language and what Shakespeare's language meant to his contemporaries, including, for example, their attitudes towards love or death, what it meant to be Welsh or a harlot, or even the significance of eating fish as opposed to beef.