Sticking to this structure meant that, on occasion, Shakespeare made up or adapted words to fit. For example, on several occasions Shakespeare changed the word "vast" to "vasty" when "vast" did ...

Everyone from Shakespeare to The Beatles has used nonsense ... Michael Rosen talks nonsense literature and made-up words with literary scholar Noreen Masud. Listen now. As Noreen Masud explains ...

See if you can spot which words the Bard introduced to our lexicon. Shakespeare passed in 1616, and it’s possible many of his ...