{"id":1816,"date":"2014-02-20T12:21:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T17:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winedarksea.org\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2025-02-10T17:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T22:35:44","slug":"macbeth-the-state-of-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winedarksea.org\/?p=1816","title":{"rendered":"Macbeth: The State of Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have a new chapter on the language of\u00a0Macbeth<\/em> which appears in this book from Arden<\/a>. The chapter surveys previous work on the language of the play, and then offers some new analysis we’ve done, chiefly using WordHoard<\/a>. Along the way, we consider the role of word frequency in literary analysis, and especially the word ‘the’ in\u00a0Macbeth <\/em>(we also think about word frequency in this<\/a> post). Of course you are going to buy the book, which is currently (February 2014) available at a reduced price at the link above, but here<\/a> is a pre-print of our chapter.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: ‘the’ is attracting a lot of attention. Here<\/span><\/a><\/span> is Bill Benzon discussing Matt Jockers’ discussion of it in\u00a0Macroanalysis<\/em>, and here<\/span><\/a><\/span> is Mark Liberman responding, with references to other work on different rates of ‘the’ in language.<\/p>\n

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INTRODUCTION Ann Thompson<\/strong>THE TEXT AND ITS STATUS<\/p>\n

Notes and Queries Concerning the Text of Macbeth<\/em> Anthony B. Dawson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dwelling \u2018in doubtful joy\u2019: Macbeth<\/em> and the Aesthetics of Disappointment Brett Gamboa<\/strong><\/p>\n

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HISTORY AND TOPICALITY<\/p>\n

Politic Bodies in Macbeth<\/em> Dermot Cavanagh<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018To crown my thoughts with acts\u2019: Prophecy and Prescription in Macbeth<\/em> Debapriya Sarkar<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lady Macbeth, First Ladies and the Arab Spring: The Performance of Power on the Twenty-First Century Stage Kevin A. Quarmby<\/strong><\/p>\n

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CRITICAL APPROACHES AND CLOSE READING<\/p>\n

\u2018A walking shadow\u2019: Place, Perception and Disorientation in Macbeth<\/em> Darlene Farabee<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cookery and Witchcraft in Macbeth<\/em> Geraldo U. de Sousa<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Language of Macbeth<\/em> Jonathan Hope and Michael Witmore<\/strong><\/p>\n

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ADAPTATION AND AFTERLIFE<\/p>\n

The Shapes of Macbeth<\/em>: The Staged Text Sandra Clark<\/strong><\/p>\n

Raising the Violence while Lowering the Stakes: Geoffrey Wright\u2019s Screen Adaptation of Macbeth<\/em> Philippa Sheppard<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Butcher and the Text: Adaptation, Theatricality and the \u2018Shakespea(Re)-Told\u2019 Macbeth<\/em> Ramona Wray<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have a new chapter on the language of\u00a0Macbeth which appears in this book from Arden. The chapter surveys previous work on the language of the play, and then offers some new analysis we’ve done, chiefly using WordHoard. Along the way, we consider the role of word frequency in literary analysis, and especially the word […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,8],"tags":[160,159,157,158],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-modern-drama","category-shakespeare","tag-ann-thompson","tag-arden","tag-macbeth","tag-word-frequency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winedarksea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winedarksea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winedarksea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winedarksea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winedarksea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/winedarksea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"https:\/\/winedarksea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winedarksea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winedarksea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winedarksea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}