I use it a ton for writing essays for school. Like I have to write two essays on Shakespeare this weekend and for the one considering two of his sonnets I'm pretty much going through and defining every word. Shakespeare was good at using words that have multiple definitions and it can often change the meaning of the entire poem if you can find different definitions that may now be obselete.
I have an annotated copy of shakespeare's works at home that was printed in like 1920 and I love it because it has all these crazy notes about his sonnets like: *At this time, Shakespeare was in love with his 16-year-old cousin, and may be aluding to her in this line.*
So funny.
It was probably written by my current Shakespeare prof!! She's nuts and old.
It's hilarious because almost all the notations are about who shakespeare was in love with at that point (boy or girl, etc.). I have a Byron anthology that's very similarly annotated. I think it would be funny to be the one who compiles the anthologies and writes out those crazy little factoids.
I actually had a prof. that liked to clue us into those kinds of details. She could be very descriptive.