The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language is the first comprehensive account of Shakespeare’s language to use computational methods derived from corpus linguistics – methods of choice for today's historical linguist. This third volume focuses on keywords in Shakespeare's plays. Play keywords are derived by conducting a statistical comparison between the words in one play with those in all the other plays. For characters, the statistical comparison is made between the vocabulary of one character and that of all the other characters in the same play. These keywords are then used to create 'linguistic profiles' of each play and main character. The profiles show how patterns of words around keywords contribute to themes in plays and characterization of the protagonists. For example, we reveal how the simple word ‘Goodnight’ contributes to dramatic tension in Julius Caesar, or how in Romeo and Juliet, Juliet's most distinctive yet apparently innocuous words, ‘if’, ‘yet’ and ‘but’, create an important aspect of her character.
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General Introduction to the Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language
Introduction to Volume 3

All’s Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar
King John
King Lear
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two Noble Kinsmen
Winter’s Tale

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Part of a landmark reference series detailing and illuminating Shakespeare's rich language through the tools of corpus linguistics, this volume is the first work to provide linguistic profiles of Shakespeare’s plays and characters.
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A unique reference work based on five years of linguistic research and computational analysis which offers accessible, evidence-based accounts of Shakespeare's words, keenly sensitive to their context
The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language series brings scholarship on Shakespeare's language fully into the 21st-century. Comprising five volumes, it offers the first comprehensive account of Shakespeare’s language to use computational methods derived from corpus linguistics . The series affords fresh insights into Shakespeare’s use of language at multiple levels – words, phrases, semantic themes, character profiles and more. In particular, it reveals what Shakespeare’s language meant to the Elizabethans through the analysis of millions of words written by his contemporaries.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350261938
Publisert
2025-01-09
Utgiver
Vendor
The Arden Shakespeare
Vekt
1560 gr
Høyde
250 mm
Bredde
194 mm
Dybde
44 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
728

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Om bidragsyterne

Dawn Archer is Professor of Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Alison Findlay is Professor of Renaissance Drama and Director of the Shakespeare Programme in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK.

Sean Murphy is a linguist interested in historical English drama. He was a Senior Research Associate on the Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language.