In our Shakespeare Quarterly paper, we used Docuscope to come up with a description of Shakespeare’s comic language which centres on the rapid exchange of singular pronouns: I/you and my/your. We claimed there that Shakespearean comedies typically involve people arguing about things, striving to arrive at a ‘we’ of agreement, but not being able to […]
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The comic ‘I’ and the tragic ‘we’?
Posted in Early Modern Drama, Shakespeare
Also tagged comedies, log likelihood, pronouns, tragedies, Twelfth Night, we, Wordhoard, you
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