New to this edition is an internet resources section, providing details of the most useful Shakespeare websites. Each play is also introduced by academics from Glasgow University, where Professor Alexander undertook his editing. The book starts with two specially written articles – a biography of Shakespeare by Germaine Greer and a wide-ranging introduction to Shakespeare theatre by the late Anthony Burgess. The texts were edited by the late Professor Peter Alexander, making it one of the most authoritative editions, recognized the world over for its clarity and scholarship.ĭescribed in the Guardian on its first publication in 1951 as ‘a symbol in the history of our national culture’, the Collins edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, edited by the late Professor Peter Alexander, has long been established as one of the most authoritative editions of Shakespeare’s works, and was chosen by the BBC as the basis for its televised cycle of the plays. I will go through this step-by-step as in Andrew Collier’ post.ĭownload the raw text file into R and read its lines.The Complete Works of Shakespeare contains the recognized canon of the bard’s plays, and his sonnets and poems. But let’s postpone the reading and concentrate on how to make a word cloud from such data. Fortunately, a complete version of the master’s work is available on the Project Gutenberg, where you can also find a myriad of other free literature to download and read (legally!!!). So, I became curious about how this might be reflected in a word cloud that is drawn from the complete works of William Shakespeare. Then I remembered my old English teacher, who said that Shakespeare’s work basically hinged on the motives of “love”, “death” and “aristocracy”. Inspired by Andrew Collier’s blog post on creating word clouds from multiple PDF-sources I played around with some texts from the Gutenberg project to visualize some of the most prominent pieces of classic literature. This post uses text data from the Gutenberg project to give a step-by-step introduction on how to create a wordcould in R. Although their analytical power might be limited, they do serve an aesthetic purpose and, for example, could be put on the cover page of a thesis or a presentation using the content of your work or the literature you went through. Word or tag clouds seem to be quite popular at the moment. Mohr, Created: December 30, 2018, Last update: December 30, 2018 William Shakespeare's Work in a Word Cloudįranz X.

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