Function Word Adjacency Networks and Early Modern Plays

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Notes

1. But this doesn’t mean they do not carry meaning. Prepositions certainly carry meaning and a similar argument can be made for pronouns.

2. As noted previously Act 5 of 3 Henry VI is just on the line for Shakespeare. We are not told its entropy score but will read it as zero for the purposes of this thought experiment.

3. There are 93 plays here, as opposed to the 94 of the 2018 article, because they include George Chapman’s single combined play The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron rather than the separate Conspiracy and Tragedy plays.