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Author Archives: Jonathan Hope
Shakespeare’s mythic vocabulary – and his invisible grammar
By Jonathan Hope | Published: February 14, 2012
Universities in the UK are under pressure to demonstrate the ‘impact’ of their research. In many ways, this is fair enough: public taxes account for the vast majority of UK University income, so it is reasonable for the public to expect academics to attempt to communicate with them about their work. University press offices have [...]
Posted in Counting Other Things, Early Modern Drama, Shakespeare | Tagged Alan Shearer, Daily Telegraph, Holger Syme, Huffington Post, Hugh Craig, Jackie Milburn, Malcolm Macdonald, Newcastle United, Robert Valenza, shakespeare's grammar, Shakespeare's vocabulary, Ward Elliott | 1 Comment
The very strange language of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By Jonathan Hope | Published: February 6, 2012
I just got back from a fun and very educative trip to Shakespeare’s Globe in London, hosted by Dr Farah Karim-Cooper, who is director of research there. The Globe stages an annual production aimed at schools (45,000 free tickets have been distributed over the past five years), and this year’s play is A Midsummer Night’s [...]
Posted in Early Modern Drama, Shakespeare, Uncategorized | Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Docuscope, Euston Tap, LATtice, Shakespeare's Globe, Wordhoard | 3 Comments
Phylogenetic inference
By Jonathan Hope | Published: May 12, 2011
Image by Greg McInerny and Stefanie Posavec – textual shifts between editions of Darwin’s Origin of Species (used by kind permission of the artist – see bottom of post for further details). In advance of starting up some big experiments on the texts being made available by TCP, we’ve been discussing the models developed [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged biology, David Krakauer, Franco Moretti, mathematics, phylogenetic inference, Stefanie Posavec | Comments closed