Suggested Reading/Bibliography:
Baugh, Albert C., Cable, Thomas. A History of the English Language. London: Routledge, 2002.
Bennett, Jeffrey O., Briggs, William L., Triola, Mario F. Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life. Second Edition. Addison Wesley Longman, 2002.
Efron, B., Thisted, R. Estimating the number of unknown species: How many words did Shakespeare know?. Biometrika, 1976, 63, 3, pp. 435-437.
Jucker, Andreas H. History of English and English Historical Linguistics. Stuttgart: Klett, 2000.
Mahood, M.M. Shakespeare's Wordplay. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.,1979.
McQuain, Jeff. Coined by Shakespeare: Words and meanings first used by the bard.USA: Merriam-Webster. 1998.
Palfrey, Simon. Late Shakespeare: A New World of Words. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1997.
Parker, Patricia. Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Soanes, Catherine and Stevenson, Angus. The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Wilbern, David. Poetic Will: Shakespeare and the Play of Language. Phiadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
Internet sources
http://shakespeare.about.com/library/weekly/aa042400a.htm
http://www.wilywalnut.com/shakespeare.html
http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/c.html
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-dictionary.htm
http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/shakespeare_words_phrases.htm