Once I’d finished creating the Words in Shakespeare app, I had a lot of fun using it! Here are some of my findings from this very important research.
Earlier this week, I made an app that lets you find out stuff about words in Shakespeare’s plays. Now I’ve had some time to play around with it – here are some things I discovered! #rstats #shakespeare (click here to play around yourself: https://t.co/o7wxOPoHrC)
— Megan Stodel (@MeganStodel) March 13, 2019
Some stuff is pretty obvious. Comedies are more likely to use the word “marriage”, histories more often use the word “crown”, tragedies are fond of “poison”…no surprises there.
— Megan Stodel (@MeganStodel) March 13, 2019
Also unsurprisingly, “love” is used most often in comedies but “lust” is more likely to be found in tragedies. 😘
— Megan Stodel (@MeganStodel) March 13, 2019
The word “laugh” is used most often in comedies, but the individual play that it features in most often is…Hamlet. 💀
— Megan Stodel (@MeganStodel) March 13, 2019
The word “tragedy” is used most often in, you guessed it, histories!
— Megan Stodel (@MeganStodel) March 13, 2019
Problem plays flaunt their ambivalence by being the type most likely to use both the words “live” and “die”.
— Megan Stodel (@MeganStodel) March 13, 2019
Finally, the word “onion” comes up most often in tragedies…which I think is very fitting, as a life-long onion-hater. The random quotation showed that one of the times this comes up is when someone who cries is described as “onion-eyed” – very evocative! 😢
— Megan Stodel (@MeganStodel) March 13, 2019
I’d love to hear what you discover using the app! You can find it here.
You can also read my posts on the initial data wrangling and exploration as well as styling Shiny apps.