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Publications

Primary publications

The primary publications for the ESC, which all research using the corpus must cite, are:

• For ESC:Folio, ESC:Quartos, and ESC:Verse:

  Culpeper, Jonathan, Hardie, Andrew, Demmen, Jane, Hughes, Jennifer and Timperley, Matt (2021). Supporting studying Shakespeare: Structural markup and grammatical annotation enhancing a corpus of the First Folio. ICAME Journal 45: 37-86. https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2021-0002

• For ESC:Comp:

  Demmen, Jane (2020). Issues and challenges in compiling a corpus of Early Modern English plays for comparison with those of William Shakespeare. ICAME Journal 44: 37-86. https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2020-0002

• For ESC:EEBO:

  Murphy, Sean (2019). Shakespeare and his contemporaries: Designing a genre classification scheme for Early English Books Online 1560–1640. ICAME Journal 43: 59-82. https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2019-0003

The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language

Culpeper, J., Hardie, A., and Demmen, J. (2023) The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language: Dictionary A-M. (Vol. 1.) Bloomsbury.

Culpeper, J., Hardie, A., and Demmen, J. (2023) The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language: Dictionary N-Z. (Vol. 2.) Bloomsbury.

Archer, D., Findlay, A., and Murphy, S. (2025) The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language: Plays and Characters. (Vol. 3.) Bloomsbury.

Ladegaard, J. and Kristensen-McLachlan, R.D. (2025) The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language: Character Networks. (Vol. 4.) Bloomsbury.

Research publications using the ESC

As the terms of use point out, we ask users of the corpus to let us know about publications (journal articles, books, or chapters in edited collections) that make use of the ESC. This is optional, but very useful, as it allows us to maintain a “master bibliography” of research that uses the corpora.

If you have a publication you would like to add to the bibliography below, please email shaklang@lancaster.ac.uk.

Hardie, A. and Dorst, I. van (2020) A survey of grammatical variability in Early Modern English drama. Language and Literature 29(3): 275-301. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947020949440