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BBC Radio 3 Podcast
Jonathan Culpeper and Alison Findlay feature in a new 45-minute BBC Radio 3 Podcast called “New thinking: Shakespeare’s Language”, presented by John Gallagher. They discuss how the project works, and the light it’s shedding both on how Shakespeare worked as … Continue reading
Intern – Sam Hollands
Being involved with the Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language project has been a great opportunity. I have been working as an intern for the last 4 weeks developing scripts to improve the efficiency of certain workflows, mainly designing a system to … Continue reading
Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language Symposium
Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language Symposium
Shakespeare’s use of pronominal address terms
Isolde van Dorst, recent graduate from the University of Groningen and the University of Malta, discusses her study on pronominal address terms in Shakespeare’s texts in collaboration with the Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language project. As part of my masters degree … Continue reading
What did an “alarum” sound like?
Graduate Intern, Luke Wilding, discusses the term alarum, and suggests what it might have actually sounded like… The term alarum occurs 89 times in Shakespeare’s first folio. The Oxford English Dictionary states that an alarum is “used as a call … Continue reading
Summer school reflections
Claire McGann, a first year PhD student in the English Literature and Creative Writing Department at Lancaster University, discusses attending Lancaster University’s Summer School in Corpus Linguistics. In June I attended several of the events held at Lancaster University’s Summer … Continue reading
Shakespeare and social status
Shakespeare and Social Status Senior Research Associate, Dr Sean Murphy, discusses how he categorised each of Shakespeare’s 1,402 characters according to social status. Introduction Social class matters. Sir Thomas Smith, writing at the time Shakespeare was born, was certainly … Continue reading
On Valentine’s Day
By Sean Murphy. Each numbered phrase is from a Shakespeare play, but which one? Answers below: Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s day, All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window To be your Valentine[i]. I am so … Continue reading
What was Christmas like for Shakespeare?
Christmas in Shakespeare’s time wasn’t a particularly glamorous affair, and it was quite unlike the finely-decorated homes and glitzy German markets that we know today. It should therefore come as no surprise that the word Christmas only appears a mere … Continue reading
Is ‘more better’ a mistake if Shakespeare said it?
Research Associate Sean Murphy looks at Shakespeare’s use of more better, and considers whether we can really consider it a mistake if Shakespeare himself said it… Learning English as a foreign language is hard. Learners are often corrected by teachers … Continue reading