Shakespeare's Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367514621 ISBN 13: 9780367514624

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

The authors of this book ask how digital research tools are changing the ways in which practicing 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 (ISE), searchable lexical corpora such as the Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) or the Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) 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.

About this title

About the Author

Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Victoria, Canada.

Mark Kaethler is an English Instructor at Medicine Hat College, Canada.

Jennifer Roberts-Smith is Assistant Professor and Associate Chair, Theatre and Performance in the Department of Drama and Speech Communication, University of Waterloo, Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367514621
• ISBN 13: 9780367514624
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Jenstad Janelle