Tag Archives: Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Neologisms: From Myth to Evidence
Following on from the AHRC-funded Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language project, we are pleased to announce that we have been successfully awarded a grant (£9,740.15) from the British Academy. The project will establish whether, and to what extent, widely held views … Continue reading
Scuffles, Swagger, and Shakespeare: The Hidden Story of English
Our very own Jonathan Culpeper recently featured in the BBC Four documentary “Scuffles, Swagger, and Shakespeare: The Hidden Story of English” presented by Dr. John Gallagher. Jonathan discusses some recent work coming out of the Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language project, … Continue reading
A close encounter with Richard III
By Dr Jane Demmen, Senior Research Associate Last month project Co-Investigator Andrew Hardie and I presented a paper at the Computational Methods for Literary-Historical Textual Scholarship conference at De Montfort University in Leicester (UK): a great event bringing together scholars … Continue reading
New intern
We are very pleased to welcome Poppy Plumb to the Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language team for the next few weeks. Find out a little more about Poppy and what she’ll be working on below… I’ve just finished my second year … Continue reading
Is that a verb I see before me? Implementing grammatical category/part-of-speech tagging in the Shakespeare Corpus
Jane Demmen discusses the process of part-of-speech tagging the Shakespeare corpus, explores some of the issues the team encountered, and their subsequent solutions… One of the many software programs that enables us to carry out the task of creating an … Continue reading
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
New team members
The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language project has just welcomed three new members to its team who will be working part-time on low-frequency items. Find out a little more about them below: Luke Wilding: I completed my undergraduate degree in English … 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
Music in Shakespeare
Graduate intern, Luke Wilding, discusses his work researching music in the works of Shakespeare. I came to work on The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language through a graduate internship scheme run by Lancaster University. I finished my undergraduate degree in English … Continue reading