Alliteration and character focus in the York Plays
This paper presents the first complete statistical study of alliteration in the York Cycle of Mystery Plays. To this end, an algorithm is designed to render the phonetic reading of the words of the play and to measure alliteration in the speeches of individual characters. Next, the alliteration stat...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2015-10-01
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Series: | Digital Medievalist |
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Online Access: | https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/articles/59 |