This repository holds both the Python and R code used to analyze some of Shakespeare's plays for the Special Lecture: Shakespeare - A Celebration in Style at the Heidelberg University English Department on June 06, 2016.

The code was hacked together in a few hours and is, as of now, adequately terrible - use at your own 'risk'.

Firstly, you need to download the Shakespeare Corpus from lexically.net. Afterwards, you have to re-encode the files to UTF-8. This can be achieved, for example, by using iconv.

You can either analyze inidividual files by running python ShakespeareSnaAnalysis.py filename.txt or a complete folder of files by running python runCorpus.py. Make sure to set the corpus_dir in runCorpus.py correctly. Results will be stored in ./results.

After all files have been processed you can run SNAGraph.R in R to generate graphical representations of the networks using igraph. As in the case of runCorpus.py, before running you should make some basic settings within the file.