Click play to listen. Recorded on November 13, 2011.
What happens when computers join the ranks of scholars who have plumbed the depths of Shakespeare’s incomparable imagination? For more than 400 years, the Bard’s works have been subjected to scrutiny from countless angles. The latest angle is digital: a group of literary scholars is pioneering electronic approaches to study the great texts. A longtime University of Wisconsin professor and the newly-appointed director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Michael Witmore is an expert on the literature of early modern England. He uses bioinformatics, corpus linguistics, and probability clouds to spot patterns in the Bard’s words. If you, like us, are not sure what any of that means, join Witmore for an unprecedented experience with Shakespeare.
Read the CHF blog about this program.
This program is presented in partnership with the Center for the Humanities and the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the Poetry Foundation.
