Review of “ShakespearePlaysPlus Text Corpus”

Review of “ShakespearePlaysPlus Text Corpus”

ShakespearePlaysPlus is a freely available digital text corpus of William Shakespeare’s plays. The 37 plays were compiled from the Oxford University Press 1916 Edition of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare” and annotated by Mike Scott for his own research in 2006. The plays are organized in...

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Main Author: Katharina Mahler
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik e. V. 2018-11-01
Series:RIDE
Subjects:
corpus analysis
english
shakespeare
text collection
theatre
Online Access:http://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-9/shakespeare-plays
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spelling doaj-0478c45eda424be7910299d81a049cf72021-09-29T20:50:48ZdeuInstitut für Dokumentologie und Editorik e. V.RIDE2363-49522018-11-01910.18716/ride.a.9.3Review of “ShakespearePlaysPlus Text Corpus”Katharina Mahler0CCeH, University of CologneShakespearePlaysPlus is a freely available digital text corpus of William Shakespeare’s plays. The 37 plays were compiled from the Oxford University Press 1916 Edition of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare” and annotated by Mike Scott for his own research in 2006. The plays are organized in three categories according to their type, i.e., comedies, historical plays and tragedies. The speeches of all characters have been extracted into separate text files. The text files are marked up in a pseudo-XML style and stored in Unicode. The corpus is downloadable as an extractable zip-file. This review presents a detailed look at the text corpus, its creation and composition. ShakespearePlaysPlus is compact and marked up with essential information, making it a durable, portable and easily reusable resource.http://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-9/shakespeare-playscorpus analysisenglishshakespearetext collectiontheatre
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corpus analysis
english
shakespeare
text collection
theatre
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title Review of “ShakespearePlaysPlus Text Corpus”
title_short Review of “ShakespearePlaysPlus Text Corpus”
title_full Review of “ShakespearePlaysPlus Text Corpus”
title_fullStr Review of “ShakespearePlaysPlus Text Corpus”
title_full_unstemmed Review of “ShakespearePlaysPlus Text Corpus”
title_sort review of “shakespeareplaysplus text corpus”
publisher Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik e. V.
series RIDE
issn 2363-4952
publishDate 2018-11-01
description ShakespearePlaysPlus is a freely available digital text corpus of William Shakespeare’s plays. The 37 plays were compiled from the Oxford University Press 1916 Edition of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare” and annotated by Mike Scott for his own research in 2006. The plays are organized in three categories according to their type, i.e., comedies, historical plays and tragedies. The speeches of all characters have been extracted into separate text files. The text files are marked up in a pseudo-XML style and stored in Unicode. The corpus is downloadable as an extractable zip-file. This review presents a detailed look at the text corpus, its creation and composition. ShakespearePlaysPlus is compact and marked up with essential information, making it a durable, portable and easily reusable resource.
topic corpus analysis
english
shakespeare
text collection
theatre
url http://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-9/shakespeare-plays
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