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Online-Service mit Zugang zu den Theaterstücken Shakespeares auf der Grundlage der 3. Auflage der renommierten Arden Shakespeare-Reihe zusammen mit der 5-bändigen "Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language", hrsg. v. Jonathan Culpeper. Neben den 42 vollständig kommentierten, weltweit führenden Arden-Ausgaben der Stücke beleuchtet die Enzyklopädie die Reichhaltigkeit von Shakespeares Sprache und bietet einen riesigen Datensatz, der auf Korpuslinguistik und computergestützter Analyse basiert. Mithilfe einer neuen Funktion können Nutzer während des Lesens eines Theatertextes die Bedeutung von Wörtern nahtlos in der Enzyklopädie nachschlagen.
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This collection will offer The Arden Shakespeare Third Series of plays alongside the landmark five-volume The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language to create a comprehensive digital guide to Shakespeare’s dramatic works.
Alongside the 42 fully annotated, world-leading Arden editions of the plays, the Encyclopedia details and illuminates the richness of Shakespeare’s language, providing a huge data set based on corpus linguistics and computational analysis. This gives users the unique opportunity to navigate between the primary play texts and accessible, evidence-based accounts of Shakespeare’s words, offering a richer understanding of the plays and the period in which they were first written and performed. Users will be able to seamlessly look up meanings of words in the Encyclopedia whilst reading an Arden Shakespeare playtext.
Content Highlights
- About the plays in this new digital collection: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
- This 'gold standard' series offers modernized texts with comprehensive commentary notes glossing meanings, discussing staging issues and explaining literary allusions.
- Each play includes a lengthy, illustrated introduction by a leading scholar exploring the play's critical, theatrical and historical contexts.
- Each year, from 2026, a small number of new Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series editions will be added to The Arden Shakespeare Play Collection: Text and Language until eventually the entire series has been incorporated.
About the Encyclopedia in the digital collection: The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language
- Comprises five major volumes that bring scholarship on Shakespeare's language fully into the 21st-century by detailing and illuminating Shakespeare's rich language through the tools of corpus linguistics and computational analysis.
- Volumes 1 and 2 offer a dictionary style analysis of the meanings of Shakespeare’s words to examine what Shakespeare’s words actually do in the environments they inhabit.
- Volume 3 is the first work to detail the linguistic thumbprints that characterize every play and every character within them
- Volume 4 is the first work to visually plot, explore and compare the formation of social communities through dialogue in all of Shakespeare’s plays
- In 2027, The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language: Semantic Fields and Themes (Volume 5) will be added to The Arden Shakespeare Play Collection: Text and Language.

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