Patterns in early modern english drama texts: a quantitative and qualitative analysis of dramatic genre, repertory and style, 1576-1642. This project combines traditional and innovative digital research methods to reveal and analyse underlying patterns and contrasts in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Surveyed as a network rather than as individual works, this project will produce new knowledge about Renaissance drama and its development.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE130100621
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$330,042.00
Summary
Reproducing Renaissance drama: editing and publishing the plays of early modern England, 1744-2012. With fresh insights from archival materials supported by quantitative and qualitative research methods, this project offers the first extended study of the editing and publishing of English Renaissance drama since the eighteenth century and its relationship to the formation of the dramatic canon.