Shakespeare’s Language: Revealing Meanings and Exploring Myths

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Last updated on March 3, 2025 4:51 am

Demystify renowned Shakespeare myths and get introduced to corpus-based methods for analysing his use of language in context.

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Who is the course for?

This course is for anyone interested in Shakespeare, language, and corpus linguistics. This includes English or literature teachers and students.

What topics will you cover?

The general features of the English of Shakespeare’s time, from spellings through words to grammar

The nature of Shakespearean texts, including how their production affected their language

How huge collections of texts can be explored by computer to highlight meanings (and in a more subtle and yet empirical way than current Shakespearean dictionaries)

The myths about Shakespeare’s language (e.g. that he coined an extraordinary number of new words)

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How fresh light can be shed on the linguistic styles of plays and characters through corpus methods.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…

Demonstrate an understanding of Shakespeare’s language and empirical methods for its analysis

Evaluate common myths surrounding Shakespeare’s language

Compare the language of Shakespeare with that of his contemporaries

Investigate the linguistic traits of characters and plays

Apply corpus linguistic concepts and methods

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