The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language: Plays and Characters

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Professor Dawn Archer (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Professor Alison Findlay (Lancaster University, UK)

The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language

Plays and Characters

Professor Dawn Archer (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Professor Alison Findlay (Lancaster University, UK), Dr Sean Murphy (Lancaster University, UK) , Dr Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University, Lancaster)

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The Arden Shakespeare
06 February 2025

Computational linguistics; Literary studies: general; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Encyclopaedias & reference works

Series: Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language

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.

By: Professor Dawn Archer (Manchester Metropolitan University UK), Professor Alison Findlay (Lancaster University, UK), Dr Sean Murphy (Lancaster University, UK)
Series edited by: Dr Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University Lancaster)
Imprint: The Arden Shakespeare
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 194mm, Spine: 44mm
Weight: 1.560kg
ISBN: 9781350261938
ISBN 10: 1350261939
Series: Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language
Pages: 728
Publication Date: 06 February 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.