The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language
plays and characters
- Hardcover
728 pages
- Release Date
5 February 2025
Summary
Unlocking Shakespeare’s Genius: A Linguistic Key to His Plays
The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language offers a groundbreaking exploration of Shakespeare’s language, employing cutting-edge computational methods from corpus linguistics – the preferred tools of modern historical linguists. This third volume delves into the power of keywords within Shakespeare’s plays.
Play keywords are identified through statistical analysis, comparing word frequencies in a si…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350261938 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350261939 |
| Series: | Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language |
| Author: | Professor Alison Findlay, Dr Sean Murphy, Professor Dawn Archer, Dr Jonathan Culpeper, Alison Findlay, Dawn Archer |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | The Arden Shakespeare |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 728 |
| Release Date: | 5 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.43kg |
| Dimensions: | 246mm x 189mm |
About The Author
Professor Alison Findlay
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.
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