Shakespeare Statistics


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STATISTICS of
plays by William Shakespeare

supplemented by almost 100 Renaissance / Jacobean plays and 20 plays from other periods
compiled by Hartmut Ilsemann
English Department of Hannover University
Englisches Seminar der Leibniz-Universität Hannover



Please note the publication of

Hartmut Ilsemann,"Some observations on speech length distributions in Shakespeare's Plays,"Shakespeare Jahrbuch 2005, vol. 141, p.158-68
Hartmut Ilsemann,"More observations on speech length distributions in Shakespeare's Plays,"Literary and Linguistic Computing, (Oxford Univ. Press),vol. 23, no 4, 2008, pp.397-407
Hartmut Ilsemann, "Quantitativ-statistische Dramenanalyse: Welche Aussagekraft haben Häufigkeitsverteilungen der Replikenlängen?" submitted to Computerphilologie, (2012)
[IDAP (Internet Drama Analysis Programme) is available from: http://idap.engsem.uni-hannover.de]
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