Shakespeare's language in digital media : old words, new tools

Folger bibliographic ID: 354613
Folger call number: PR3072 .S38 2018
Folger holdings ID: 502792

"The authors of this book ask how digital research tools are changing the ways in which practising editors historicize Shakespeare's language. Scholars now encounter, interpret, and disseminate Shakespeare's language through an increasing variety of digital resources, including online editions such as the Internet Shakespeare Editions, searchable lexical corpora such as the Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership or the Lexicons of Early Modern English collections, high-quality digital facsimiles such as the Folger Shakespeare Library's Digital Image Collection, text visualization tools such as Voyant, apps for reading and editing on mobile devices, and more. What new insights do these tools offer about the ways Shakespeare's words made meaning in their own time? What kinds of historical or historicizing arguments can digital editions make about Shakespeare's language? A growing body of work in the digital humanities allows textual critics to explore new approaches to editing in digital environments, and enables language historians to ask and answer new questions about Shakespeare's words. The authors in this unique book explicitly bring together the two fields of textual criticism and language history in an exploration of the ways in which new tools are expanding our understanding of Early Modern English"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-195) and index

Extended title: Shakespeare's language in digital media : old words, new tools / edited by Janelle Jenstad, Mark Kaethler, and Jennifer Roberts-Smith

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 English language

subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
editor: Jenstad, Janelle
editor: Kaethler, Mark
editor: Roberts-Smith, Jennifer