Enhanced Shakespearean Corpus
Resources from the Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language Project
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Accessing the Enhanced Shakespearean Corpus
Please read through the terms of use below, and, if you are willing to agree by its terms, complete the form that follows to get access.
Enhanced Shakespearean Corpus: Terms of Use
Definitions
- You: the individual signing to agree to these terms and conditions.
- We/Us: the AHRC-funded Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language Project and its participants.
- Enhanced Shakespearean Corpus (ESC): a multipart textual dataset, each component having a specific name and abbreviation.
- ESC: First Folio Plus (ESC:Folio): the component consisting of the plays of William Shakespeare, specifically the edition contained in the First Folio, or (for those plays not in the First Folio) a Quarto edition.
- ESC: Comparative Plays (ESC:Comp): the component consisting of Early Modern English plays selected as a suitable point of comparison for the plays of Shakespeare.
- ESC: EEBO-TCP Segment (ESC:EEBO): the component consisting of a segment of the EEBO-TCP Phase I texts, other than plays.
- ESC: Quartos: the component consisting of editions of Shakespeare’s plays in quarto.
- ESC: Verse: the component consisting of Shakespeare’s verse.
- Enhancements: all enhancements made to the above datasets including, among others: unified XML structure; rectified character attribution; addition of layers of regularised spelling, part-of-speech annotation, semantic annotation and lemmatisation; and connections with newly-compiled textual and character metadata.
Intellectual property
- IP in the underlying electronic texts of the ESC:Folio belongs to the University of Victoria and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA).
- IP in the underlying electronic texts used in ESC:Comp and ESC:EEBO belongs to the Text Creation Partnership (TCP), as they are drawn from the EEBO-TCP phase 1 release. The TCP’s terms on the use of EEBO-TCP phase 1 may be found here: https://www.textcreationpartnership.org/tcp-eebo/
- IP in the Enhancements made to these texts by Us belongs to Lancaster University. We make them available under the terms stated in this document.
Your use of this IP is subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA).
License
We ask that you fulfil the requirements of the CC BY-NC-SA license as follows:
Attribution
By making use of the Enhancements under these terms of use, you agree that you will attribute their creation to Us.
Particularly we request that, in any academic writing (published or unpublished) that you may produce on the basis of your use of the Enhancements, you credit us by citing, in the usual format for your field, the primary reference publication for each of the component corpora that you make use of.
The primary reference citations are as follows:
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ESC:Folio
Culpeper, Jonathan, Hardie, Andrew, Demmen, Jane, Timperley, Matt and Hughes, Jennifer (in preparation). Supporting studying Shakespeare: Structural markup and grammatical annotation enhancing a corpus of the First Folio. Journal tbc.
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ESC:Comp
Demmen, Jane (submitted). Issues and challenges in compiling a corpus of early modern English plays for comparison with those of William Shakespeare. Journal tbc.
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ESC:EEBO
Murphy, Sean (2019). Shakespeare and his contemporaries: Designing a genre classification scheme for Early English Books Online 1560–1640. ICAME Journal 43(1): 59-82.
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ESC:Quartos
Culpeper, Jonathan, Hardie, Andrew, Demmen, Jane, Timperley, Matt and Hughes, Jennifer (in preparation). Supporting studying Shakespeare: Structural markup and grammatical annotation enhancing a corpus of the First Folio. Journal tbc.
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ESC:Verse
Culpeper, Jonathan, Hardie, Andrew, Demmen, Jane, Timperley, Matt and Hughes, Jennifer (in preparation). Supporting studying Shakespeare: Structural markup and grammatical annotation enhancing a corpus of the First Folio. Journal tbc.
We ask you to (but you do not have to) inform us of such publications through our website, so that we can list them in appropriate public bibliographies of research that uses the Enhancements.
No commercial use
You may not make commercial use of the Enhancements under these Terms of Use. If you wish to make commercial use of the material, please contact us (j.culpeper@lancaster.ac.uk). We reserve the right to grant or not grant permission for such uses, at our discretion, based on the precise nature of the request and any such intellectual property issues as may arise.
Share Alike
You are free to transform or build upon the Enhancements. However, if you wish to distribute your contributions, you must distribute them under the same licence as we apply here to the Enhancements.
You may not add any additional restrictions to the terms of use that you apply to any such contributions. Please refer to Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA) for more details.