Where there’s a quill … help to unpick manuscripts from the days of Shakespeare

A new project is putting manuscripts from letters to recipes online for volunteers to read and translate

Hang up your hose and ditch your doublet - there's a new way to experience Shakespeare's era. An online project is asking volunteers to tease apart the spidery scrawl of manuscripts to reveal new insights into daily life as it was more than 400 years ago.

Launching on Thursday, Shakespeare's World is a joint project between crowdsourcing organisation Zooniverse, the Oxford English Dictionary and Folger Shakespeare Library, and features a multitude of manuscripts penned by the Bard's contemporaries from letters to recipes.

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