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Describes process of discriminating between SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza-A, two conditions with similar symptoms, by using “novel text-based classification model.” Explains how researchers downloaded viral protein sequences of both conditions with varying lengths and selected random instances of each condition to form two-class dataset. Explains how researchers used “new feature extraction function based on a unique pattern, HamletPat, generated from the text of Shakespeare’s Hamlet” as well as “a signum function to extract local binary pattern-like bits from overlapping fixed-length blocks of the protein sequences.” English summary, online.  

Describes Folger Shakespeare Library’s Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama proposed digital corpus of documentary editions based first editions of early modern plays. Demonstrates how data model developed for editing Shakespeare's text was challenged by editions of early printed plays by Dekker, Marlowe, Jonson and others. English summary, online. English summary, online. 

Investigates how editors, printers, and programmers have fragmented and indexed Shakespeare's texts to allow readers to engage with them in more specific ways. Argues Shakespeare’s texts are "unusual not in how they have been heavily fragmented for efficient handling by both man and machine, but rather in how they have resisted fragmentation." English summary, online.

Assesses four editions of Shakespeare plays encoded according to guidelines from Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) to examine their function as reading interfaces. Argues TEI editions provide "textual access points" that traditional forms of reading do not offer. 

Argues early modern typographic and alphabetic interfaces are important sites of negotiation and are "vital to understanding the dialectic of human agency and media determination." Seeks to position poetics as "centrally involved" in such negotiations through study of Geofroy Tory’s treatise on typography Champ Fleury (1529) and Venus and Adonis.  Examines prominence of alphabetic interfaces in Shakespeare’s poetry, and "recurrent intersection of bodies, letters, and divine violence in both Shakespeare’s and Tory’s writing."

Considers graphic presentation of early modern texts as textual interfaces. Argues "fluid" early modern spelling and "polysemous" typography in first quarto of Hamlet (1603) function as "rich sources of meaning-making for early modern readers, poets, and publishers." English summary, online.

Produced by the Back Room Shakespeare Project (https://www.backroomshakespeare.com) at Paulie Gee's, Chicago, IL, 13 February 2023.

Examines nineteenth-century American theater as arena for antislavery rhetoric. Discusses underlying theatricality in debate over slavery before American Civil War. Considers citations from Hamlet and Merchant of Venice deployed in slavery debate. Discusses Shakespearean actors of Antebellum era such as Edwin Forrest. 

Investigates role of spectating audience in viewing tragedy, particularly King Lear. Considers how observation of tragedy provokes aesthetic reaction of learned empathy. 

Historical fiction novel telling story of Booth family, famous family known for Shakespearean acting dynasty, including famed actor Edwin Booth and his brother, actor John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Explores scandals and politics of Booth family during early- to mid-nineteenth century.