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20 Digital Approaches to the Language of Shakespearean Tragedy
Get accessMichael Witmore, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC
Jonathan Hope is Reader in Literary Linguistics at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. His publications include Stylistics: A Practical Coursebook (Routledge; with Laura Wright); The Authorship of Shakespeare's Plays (CUP); Shakespeare's Grammar (Arden); and Shakespeare and Language: Reason, Eloquence and Artifice in the Renaissance (Arden). He is currently engaged in a major project with Michael Witmore (Folger Shakesphere Library) on the digital analysis of Early Modern Texts—ongoing work is first published on Witmore's blog at: winedarksea.com.
Michael Gleicher, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Published:02 November 2016
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Abstract
We are living through a revolution in our ability to study Early Modern literature and culture: EEBO‒TCP offers the possibility of searching something close to the entire corpus of surviving Early Modern printed books. Such access enables us to consider questions involving larger numbers of documents than have hitherto been the norm. However, investigating at scale requires different approaches to scholarship: it is not practical to close-read tens of thousands of texts. To make the most of these new resources, we must integrate traditional literary scholarship with new approaches. This chapter gives an example of such a combined approach. We consider the language of 554 printed plays from the Early Modern period. We explore two research questions: (a) is there a distinct ‘language of tragedy’? (b) is there a distinctively Shakespearean language of tragedy? We aim to show how computational and traditional literary techniques can be combined to answer these questions.
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