Visualizing textual similarity of Shakespearean suspect texts: An examination of the Henry VI plays.
The relationship between Shakespeare's First Folio and early printings, published in his lifetime, has been a matter of dispute for centuries. A computer program that I have developed visualizes the fluctuating quality of textual correspondences between Folio texts, Henry the Sixth , Part Two and Th...
| Published in: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 919 - 934 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2021
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