subject-theater-freebo

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-25 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 19 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,896,947 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 99,839 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 89. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

id, xml, reg, lemma, pos, facs, pc, acp, stage, sentence, unit, play, av, de, see, playes, vvi, sp, speaker, may, cs, vvb, will, cc, mr, pns, one, lib, type, contract, shall, now, much, ab, men, first, cap, comedy, must, yet, po, plays, man, us, vvz, love, great, pn, acted, non

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Beauty in distress as it is acted at the theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields by His Majesties servants / written by Mr. Motteux ; with a discourse of the lawfulness & unlawfulness of plays, lately written by the learned Father Caffaro, divinity-professor at Paris, sent in a letter to the author by a divine of the Church of England., Love''s kingdom a pastoral trage-comedy : not as it was acted at the theatre near Lincolns-Inn, but as it was written, and since corrected / by Richard Flecknoe ; with a short treatise of the English stage, &c. by the same author., and Histrio-mastix The players scourge, or, actors tragædie, divided into two parts. Wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers arguments, by the concurring authorities and resolutions of sundry texts of Scripture ... That popular stage-playes ... are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions; condemned in all ages, as intolerable mischiefes to churches, to republickes, to the manners, mindes, and soules of men. And that the profession of play-poets, of stage-players; together with the penning, acting, and frequenting of stage-playes, are unlawfull, infamous and misbeseeming Christians. All pretences to the contrary are here likewise fully answered; and the unlawfulnes of acting, of beholding academicall enterludes, briefly discussed; besides sundry other particulars concerning dancing, dicing, health-drinking, &c. of which the table will informe you. By William Prynne, an vtter-barrester of Lincolnes Inne..

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

pc xml, pos acp, sentence xml, pc unit, unit sentence, pos av, vvi reg, pos vvi, cs reg, pos vvb, vvb reg, av reg, pos pns, pns reg, cc reg, type contract, pos cc, pos po, po reg, vvz reg, pos vvz, ab reg, pos pn, pn reg, speaker xml, sp xml, pos vvn, vvn reg, pno reg, pos pno, pos crq, sp sp, nn reg, join left, contract lemma, pos vmb, pos cs, vmb reg, eos facs, rendition hi, vvd reg, pos vvd, lemma will, will pos, pos uh, stage xml, vvg reg, pos vvg, vmd reg, pos vmd

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Beauty in distress as it is acted at the theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields by His Majesties servants / written by Mr. Motteux ; with a discourse of the lawfulness & unlawfulness of plays, lately written by the learned Father Caffaro, divinity-professor at Paris, sent in a letter to the author by a divine of the Church of England. Love''s kingdom a pastoral trage-comedy : not as it was acted at the theatre near Lincolns-Inn, but as it was written, and since corrected / by Richard Flecknoe ; with a short treatise of the English stage, &c. by the same author., and An ordinance of both Hovses of Parliament for the suppressing of publike stage-playes throughout the kingdome, during these calamitous times..

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

stage, play, man, english, character, author, world, tragedy, religion, comedy, collier, tcp, reason, reader, poet, mr., love, king, church, book, roman, poets, plays, people, lord, lady, drama, christian, charles, audience, act, virtue, theatre, players, persons, men, manners, house, heathen, gods, god, fathers, dryden, clergy, authority, argument, xml, unit="sentence, type="contract2, type="contract1">''t

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be a51496, and A short view of the immorality, and profaneness of the English stage together with the sense of antiquity upon this argument / by Jeremy Collier ... is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

1. a51496 - Beauty in distress as it is acted at the theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields by His Majesties servants / written by Mr. Motteux ; with a discourse of the lawfulness & unlawfulness of plays, lately written by the learned Father Caffaro, divinity-professor at Paris, sent in a letter to the author by a divine of the Church of England.
2. stage - Histrio-mastix The players scourge, or, actors tragædie, divided into two parts. Wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers arguments, by the concurring authorities and resolutions of sundry texts of Scripture ... That popular stage-playes ... are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions; condemned in all ages, as intolerable mischiefes to churches, to republickes, to the manners, mindes, and soules of men. And that the profession of play-poets, of stage-players; together with the penning, acting, and frequenting of stage-playes, are unlawfull, infamous and misbeseeming Christians. All pretences to the contrary are here likewise fully answered; and the unlawfulnes of acting, of beholding academicall enterludes, briefly discussed; besides sundry other particulars concerning dancing, dicing, health-drinking, &c. of which the table will informe you. By William Prynne, an vtter-barrester of Lincolnes Inne.
3. morphadorner - An ordinance of both Hovses of Parliament for the suppressing of publike stage-playes throughout the kingdome, during these calamitous times.

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

1. a51496, xml, id - Beauty in distress as it is acted at the theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields by His Majesties servants / written by Mr. Motteux ; with a discourse of the lawfulness & unlawfulness of plays, lately written by the learned Father Caffaro, divinity-professor at Paris, sent in a letter to the author by a divine of the Church of England.
2. playes, stage, lib - Histrio-mastix The players scourge, or, actors tragædie, divided into two parts. Wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers arguments, by the concurring authorities and resolutions of sundry texts of Scripture ... That popular stage-playes ... are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions; condemned in all ages, as intolerable mischiefes to churches, to republickes, to the manners, mindes, and soules of men. And that the profession of play-poets, of stage-players; together with the penning, acting, and frequenting of stage-playes, are unlawfull, infamous and misbeseeming Christians. All pretences to the contrary are here likewise fully answered; and the unlawfulnes of acting, of beholding academicall enterludes, briefly discussed; besides sundry other particulars concerning dancing, dicing, health-drinking, &c. of which the table will informe you. By William Prynne, an vtter-barrester of Lincolnes Inne.
3. play, mr, comedy - An account of the English dramatick poets, or, Some observations and remarks on the lives and writings of all those that have publish''d either comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, pastorals, masques, interludes, farces or opera''s in the English tongue by Gerard Langbaine.
4. forborne, effectuall, seekest - An ordinance of both Hovses of Parliament for the suppressing of publike stage-playes throughout the kingdome, during these calamitous times.
5. forborne, effectuall, seekest - An ordinance of both Hovses of Parliament for the suppressing of publike stage-playes throughout the kingdome, during these calamitous times.

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

xml, pc, p, l, p., pos="n1, play, stage, pos="n2, cs, playes, cap, pos="vvi, men, author, t, man, time, part, ad, things, others, nothing, people, reason, times, thing, tho, plays, r, way, scene, day, o., >, words, house, houses, persons, reader, cc, unit="sentence, history, place, players, fathers, life, quod, x, women

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

id="a51496, is, be, are, was, have, were, see, has, lemma="i, had, being, acted, printed, pos="pns, make, made, been, did, let, do, writ, say, take, give, dedicated, know, says, ''s, does, think, makes, come, am, taken, put, find, said, pos="av_j, written, done, read, seems, set, having, called, given, lemma="your, brought, lemma="love

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

w, facs="a51496, id="a39719, id="a51496, pos="acp, xml, unit="sentence, c., ●, de, pos="j, pos="vvb, pc, l., lib, pos="cc, lemma="be, pos="av, mr., 〉, ◊, lemma="the, 〈, reg="the, lemma="and, pos="d, pos="vvz, stage, pos="n, pos="pn, comedy, god, pos="po, sp, reg="and, speaker, playes, reg="to, pag, reg="i, pos="pno, pos="vvn, est, pos="vvi, et, pos="crq, lemma="of, tom, reg="of, type="contract2

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

his, it, he, their, i, they, them, our, him, we, her, you, us, my, themselves, himself, your, me, she, its, ''em, thy, thee, one, em, ours, theirs, itself, u, mine, herself, ''s, s, ye, vp, f, yours, w, non, lemma="throw, lemma="breast, l, shou''d, lemma="thyself, ●, o, y, thou, hers, ay

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

pos="n1, such, other, great, good, many, first, more, pos="av, same, much, own, very, true, little, most, whole, common, reg="for, reg="me, several, reg="be, last, best, present, pos="n1-nn, least, better, pos="cs, facs="a51496, unlawfull, former, sundry, second, old, general, ancient, private, lascivious, non, particular, publike, ill, pos="pns, holy, new, wicked, large, late, greater

not, so, then, more, now, very, therefore, here, thus, as, most, much, only, well, too, up, never, even, yet, onely, first, together, out, there, likewise, accordingly, rather, ever, far, on, also, especially, in, all, ibid, n''t, indeed, away, sometimes, off, no, hence, else, already, long, once, over, almost, still, down

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