Digital Shakespeare
Digital Shakespeare explores how modern technology
can enrich Shakespearean scholarship.
This project applies digital humanities methods
– from AI-driven text analysis to network visualization – to Shakespeare’s plays.
By classifying early modern texts and mapping character interactions,
it uncovers patterns and relationships not evident through traditional study.
The goal is to provide fresh insights into Shakespeare’s works and demonstrate
how computational tools can deepen our understanding of literary history.
Heejin Kim
In/Outside 56 (2024): 18–58
This study utilizes network analysis to explore structural unity in Renaissance plays, tracing the influence of medieval touring companies on 16th-century dramatic structures. Employing digital humanities methodologies, the research applies community detection algorithms and silhouette scores …
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Shakespeare, Character Network Analysis, Digital Humanities, Mediality, Dramatic Structure, Silhouette Score
Heejin Kim
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 117.3 (2023): 271–309
In the printed texts of early modern plays, scholars have observed a number of lines bracketed by a set of duplicate lines. In 1918, J. Dover Wilson called this type of textual error a “repetition bracket” and argued that it is evidence for the insertion of additional text. In 1930, W. W. Greg adduced …
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Heejin Kim
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 36.4 (2021): 919–933
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 …
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Shakespeare 15.4 (2019): 356–378
Since 1928, The First Part of the Contention and Richard Duke of York (printed separately in the 1590s) have been regarded as memorial reconstructions of two texts in the Folio edition of Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (printed in 1623) …
Keywords:
The First Part of the Contention, Richard Duke of York, Christopher Marlowe, bad quarto, collaboration, attribution