This investigation of the size of Shakespeare's vocabulary and its implications for authorship starts with the assumption Shakespeare did, in fact, have a superior vocabulary. McCrum et al. State that "... Shakespeare had one of the largest vocabularies of any English writer, some 30,000 words" (103). Slater reports: "It has been said, for instance, that Shakespeare has a larger vocabulary than Milton" (20). Others have claimed that Shakespeare's vocabulary was double, or even triple, that of Milton's.
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