{"id":6160,"date":"2016-04-22T12:51:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T12:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6160"},"modified":"2016-04-22T12:51:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T12:51:58","slug":"whats-in-a-number-william-shakespeares-legacy-analysed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6160","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s in a number? William Shakespeare\u2019s legacy analysed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/shakespeare.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6166\" src=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/shakespeare-300x180.png\" alt=\"shakespeare\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/shakespeare-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/shakespeare-1024x616.png 1024w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/shakespeare.png 1770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Guardian published an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/ng-interactive\/2016\/apr\/22\/william-shakespeares-legacy-analysed\">What\u2019s in a number? William Shakespeare\u2019s legacy analysed<\/a>\u00a0(April 22, 2016). This article is part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/series\/shakespeare-400\">Shakespeare 400<\/a> series in honour of the 400th anniversary of the bard&#8217;s death. The article is introduced thus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shakespeare\u2019s ability to distil human nature into an elegant turn of phrase is rightly exalted \u2013 much remains vivid four centuries after his death. Less scrutiny has been given to statistics about the playwright and his works, which tell a story in their own right. Here we analyse the numbers behind the Bard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The authors offer a series of visualizations of statistics about Shakespeare that are rather more of a tease than anything really interesting. They also ignore the long history of using quantitative methods to study Shakespeare going back to Mendenhall&#8217;s study of authorship using word lengths.<\/p>\n<p>Mendenhall, T. C. (1901). &#8220;A Mechanical Solution of a Literary Problem.&#8221; The Popular Science Monthly. LX(7): 97-105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian published an article on What\u2019s in a number? William Shakespeare\u2019s legacy analysed\u00a0(April 22, 2016). This article is part of a Shakespeare 400 series in honour of the 400th anniversary of the bard&#8217;s death. The article is introduced thus: Shakespeare\u2019s ability to distil human nature into an elegant turn of phrase is rightly exalted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6160\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What\u2019s in a number? William Shakespeare\u2019s legacy analysed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16,12],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-6160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-text-analysis","category-visualization","tag-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6167,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions\/6167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}