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Welcome

Welcome to the information and data release website for the ESC.

About the ESC

The ESC is a set of linguistic corpora developed in support of the Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language.

Corpus access on CQPweb

We have made the ESC corpora accessible on Lancaster University's CQPweb server. Once you have signed up, you will be able to search the corpora via the direct links provided below.

The most up-to-date version of the corpora

Older versions of the corpora

Note that these resources are linked for archival and reference purposes only. We strongly recommend using the most up-to-date version of the corpora for any new research.

• Version 1.0 was the first formal release. This is the version of the data reflected in the published volumes of the Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language.
• Version 0.9 was a pre-release of the data with some known errors of encoding and annotation. It was used in some early research based on the corpora.

Access to these corpora is by the same mechanism as the up-to-date corpora. That is, if your CQPweb account has access to the up-to-date corpora, it will also have access to these archival old versions.