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Annotation is here!
The fabled ability to annotate any text of Shakespeare is now part of the Open Shakespeare website! Massive thanks to Nick for all his work on something far too complex for me to even describe its complexity (apparently there were … Continue reading
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There’s a famous line in Hamlet: “O that this too too solid flesh would melt” (1.ii.129). Not only is it the start of an agonised soliloquy in which Hamlet tortures himself over his mother’s apparent desire for her dead husband’s … Continue reading
Word of the Day: Shark
Admittedly, ‘shark’ is not the first word one associates with Shakespeare, but both the noun and the now obsolete verb were used by the Bard. The noun crops up as one of the ingredients for the witches’ potion in Macbeth: … Continue reading
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Word of the Day: Capon
Keeping with the food theme, today’s word is capon. Still a popular dish in France and elsewhere on the continent, it is no longer enjoyed as much in Britain as it was in Shakespeare’s time. To be precise, a capon, … Continue reading
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Word of the Day: Baker
One of the raving Ophelia’s most mysterious lines goes: Well, God dild you! They say the owl was a baker’s daughter. (4.v) Ever wonder what she’s talking about? This is a reference to popular the medieval legend of Jesus asking … Continue reading
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XML and the Natural Language Toolkit
I’ve been playing with the nltk (natural language toolkit) and the really useful Jon Bosak xml annotated corpus these days, and this are some of the graphs I’ve been able to parse after analyzing the speech of the main characters … Continue reading
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Shakespeare en Français
Bonsoir tout le monde, If you’ve ever wondered what Hamlet looks like in French, you can now find out via the Open Shakespeare website. The standalone text, based on Guizot’s translation of Shakespeare can be found here. If you want … Continue reading
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Introductions!
Members of Open Shakespeare are gradually writing and uploading a series of short introductions for each of the plays. These will eventually be supplemented by longer critical introductions and general essays to enhance your reading. All of these introductions can, … Continue reading
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Proof-Editing Shakespeare Entry from Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition
Since the previous post we’ve succeeded in using tesseract and we now have a nice plain text version of the EB entry on shakespeare: http://knowledgeforge.net/shakespeare/svn/trunk/shksprdata/ancillary/britannica-11th.txt What we now need to do is ‘proof’ this to correct the OCR errors. This … Continue reading
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OCRing Shakespeare Entry from Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition
One of next things we want to do for open shakespeare is provide an open introduction for to his works. The obvious idea for this was to use the Shakespeare entry in the 11th ed of the Encyclopaedia Britannica as … Continue reading
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