We perform digital analysis on literary texts not to answer questions, but to generate questions. The questions digital analysis can answer are generally not ‘interesting’ in a humanist sense: but the questions digital analysis provokes often are. And these questions have to be answered by ‘traditional’ literary methods. Here’s an example. Dr Farah Karim-Cooper, head […]
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What happens in Hamlet?
Posted in Early Modern Drama, Shakespeare
Also tagged Farah Karim-Cooper, Hamlet, log likelihood, pronoun I
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The very strange language of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
I just got back from a fun and very educative trip to Shakespeare’s Globe in London, hosted by Dr Farah Karim-Cooper, who is director of research there. The Globe stages an annual production aimed at schools (45,000 free tickets have been distributed over the past five years), and this year’s play is A Midsummer Night’s […]
Posted in Early Modern Drama, Shakespeare, Uncategorized
Also tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Docuscope, Euston Tap, LATtice, Shakespeare's Globe
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The comic ‘I’ and the tragic ‘we’?
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 […]
Posted in Early Modern Drama, Shakespeare
Also tagged comedies, I, log likelihood, pronouns, tragedies, Twelfth Night, we, you
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