Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Language
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Language
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Basic Elements
- Part II Shaping Contexts
- Part III New Technologies
- 9 Digital Approaches to Shakespeare’s Language
- 10 Authorship, Computers, and Comparative Style
- 11 Reading in Time: Cognitive Dynamics and the Literary Experience of Shakespeare
- Part IV Contemporary Sites for Language Change
- Appendix Glossary of Rhetorical Figures
- Further Reading
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
- References
9 - Digital Approaches to Shakespeare’s Language
from Part III - New Technologies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2019
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Language
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Language
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Basic Elements
- Part II Shaping Contexts
- Part III New Technologies
- 9 Digital Approaches to Shakespeare’s Language
- 10 Authorship, Computers, and Comparative Style
- 11 Reading in Time: Cognitive Dynamics and the Literary Experience of Shakespeare
- Part IV Contemporary Sites for Language Change
- Appendix Glossary of Rhetorical Figures
- Further Reading
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
- References
Summary
There has never been a more exciting time to be working on Shakespeare’s language. If you have an internet connection, fire it up.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language , pp. 151 - 167Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
References
Digital Resources
AntConc (Laurence Anthony, Waseda University)Google Scholar
General-purpose concordance program. There is extensive support for AntConc available on the web. For an excellent starter lesson, see Heather Froehlich, 2015, ‘Corpus Analysis with AntConc’: https://programminghistorian.org/lessons/corpus-analysis-with-antconcGoogle Scholar
Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP)Google Scholar
Homepage for the project, with download links.Google Scholar
Early Print (Anupam Basu with Steve Pentecost, Douglas Knox, and Joseph Loewenstein, Washington University, St Louis)Google Scholar
This site gives access to the entire EEBO-TCP corpus. Other sites which enable you to search EEBO-TCP (unlike Early Print, these may involve registration/subscription):Google Scholar
Lancaster CQPWeb https://cqpweb.lancs.ac.uk/Google Scholar
Mark Davies Corpus https://corpus.byu.edu/Google Scholar
JISC Historical Texts http://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/ (UK only)Google Scholar
Visualising English Print (VEP) (Mike Gleicher et al., Wisconsin-Madison University, Strathclyde University, Folger Shakespeare Library)Google Scholar
Downloadable, curated corpora of Shakespeare (multiple versions and formats), early modern drama, early modern scientific texts, and others. Includes a customisable on-line tagger (Ubiquity).Google Scholar
WordHoard (Martin Mueller and Philip R. ‘Pib’ Burns, Northwestern University)Google Scholar
A deeply tagged corpus of Shakespeare. Allows for complex statistical analysis (e.g. log-likelihood) and simpler word searches. Excellent supporting documentation.Google Scholar
Other sites enabling you to search different versions of the Shakespeare corpus:Google Scholar
Folger Digital Texts www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/Google Scholar
Open Source Shakespeare www.opensourceshakespeare.org/Google Scholar