Corpora

Early Modern 1080

This corpus contains 1,080 digitized early modern texts, which were originally published between 1530 and 1799. It was built by sampling 40 texts per decade from a sampling of ECCO and EEBO texts in an attempt to provide a less biased cross-section than simply using well-known texts.

These documents have been run through the VARD 2 spelling modernizer. Additionally, they have been annotated with metadata such as title, year, genre, author, and publisher.

See this corpus as a topic model visualized through one of our tools, Serendip+Ity.

Early Modern Drama

Otherwise known as the 'Master Metadata Corpus.' The metadata associated with each play represents an amalgam of information from up to three resources:

• Lesser and Farmer's Database of Early English Playbooks (DEEP) for plays up to 1660
• Alfred Harbage's Annals of English Drama, 975-1700 for plays after 1660 to 1700
• Martin Wiggins' British Drama 1533-1642 (current published volumes span 1533-1602)

Our list does not include every edition of every text, although there are some duplicates where a play has been transcribed in the TCP more than once.

Some of the texts listed here are not in the EEBO-TCP (as of July 5, 2015)--we assume there are various reasons for texts in DEEP or Harbage not being in the EEBO-TCP: some are in Latin, some are fragments, and some have not been transcribed.

In addition to plays, the corpus contains other dramatic texts like masques and entertainments.