Shakespeare’s language revisited in the 21st century

This special issue charts the map of most innovative research questions, perspectives and tools that are being employed to investigate the Shakespearean language in the wide range of his works − tragedies, comedies, and sonnets − and, in doing so, it offers a prismatic picture of the Bard’s wit. In more detail, the collection of articles probes into the advantages and strengths of endorsing a linguistically-oriented approach to revisit Shakespeare’s creativity and sets new avenues for future research, by capturing a rich diversity of perspectives and variously combining latest developments in both linguistic theories and research methodologies: from speech act theory to historical pragmatics, from construction grammar to cognitive linguistics and cognitive poetics, from translation studies to corpus stylistics, corpus-assisted research and computational analysis.