{"id":649,"date":"2017-07-03T16:31:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T16:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/?p=649"},"modified":"2019-09-13T11:30:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T11:30:51","slug":"writing-tips-from-shakespeare-lancaster-universitys-language-detectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/2017\/07\/03\/writing-tips-from-shakespeare-lancaster-universitys-language-detectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Tips from Shakespeare \u2013 Lancaster University\u2019s Language Detectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jules Horne, a playwright and attendee of the Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics and other Digital Methods reflects on her visit, and discusses the importance of the Encyclopaedia and Shakespeare&#8217;s Language project&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ever wondered about Shakespeare as a writer<em>?\u00a0<\/em>What techniques did he use? How did he create his effects? What can you learn for your own writing? As a playwright, I\u2019ve always been curious, and was hugely excited to get the chance to go to Lancaster University\u2019s amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/ucrel.lancs.ac.uk\/summerschool\/corpusling.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Summer School in Corpus Linguistics<\/a>, and find out about research going on into Shakespeare\u2019s use of language.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_650\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-650\" class=\"wp-image-650 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/files\/2017\/07\/lancaster-shakespeare-writing3-sm-271x300-271x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Analysing Shakespeare&#8217;s metaphors &#8211; Professor Jonathan Culpeper<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Imagine forensic detectives sifting through Shakespeare\u2019s words for clues \u2013 that\u2019s essentially what the Shakespeare\u2019s Language team under Professor Jonathan Culpeper are up to. Their forthcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shakespeare Encyclopedia<\/a> is set to change the way we think about the beloved bard, thanks to new insights from deep computer analysis of his language.<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of myths surrounding Shakespeare, and Prof Culpeper successfully debunked a few of them. Was Shakespeare\u2019s vocabulary exceptionally huge? Not really \u2013 he just wrote more plays, and had a long life to do it in! Using the Shakespeare <em>corpus<\/em> (aka digitised <em>body<\/em> of text) alongside other writing from the period, the Lancaster team have analysed the playwright\u2019s vocabulary diversity, and shown that he was no more eloquent than many other writers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.method-writing.com\/writing-tips-shakespeare-lancaster-university-language-detectives\/\">Click here for the full article on Method-Writing.com&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jules Horne, a playwright and attendee of the Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics and other Digital Methods reflects on her visit, and discusses the importance of the Encyclopaedia and Shakespeare&#8217;s Language project&#8230; Ever wondered about Shakespeare as a writer?\u00a0What &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/2017\/07\/03\/writing-tips-from-shakespeare-lancaster-universitys-language-detectives\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,27,39],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lancaster-summer-schools-in-corpus-linguistics-and-other-digital-methods","tag-method-writing-com","tag-shakespeares-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}