Research on Scholarly Communication of Shakespeare from the Perspective of Digital Humanities

Abstract

Abstract: As a rising discipline across computer and humanities, digital humanities take advantage of digital technologies to enrich the research methods and deepen the research contents of traditional arts and humanities. In order to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, this paper, from the perspective of digital humanities, uses statistical methods of bibliometrics and information visualization to analyze the spatial and temporal distribution and content of Shakespeare’s scholarly communication as well as the regional characteristics. The results show that: ①Shakespeare’s research has formed a UKcentric European cluster study and a US-centered North American cluster study, which can be divided into three stages time-wise, with the year 1975 as the turning point; ②The scholarly communication mainly focused on Shakespeare’s works and their themes; ③The scholarly communication bears distinct regional characteristics, such as the stage performance and the version in England, and the American spirit of equality and digital humanities. This paper, as an initial attempt at digital humanities, can provide a new perspective and reference value for Shakespeare’s scholarly communication research.

Key words: Digital humanities, Shakespeare, Scholarly communication, Visualization

Ran Congjing , Zhao Yang, Lü Yaqi, Huang Haiying. Research on Scholarly Communication of Shakespeare from the Perspective of Digital Humanities[J]. Libraly Journal, 2018, 37(3): 39-48.

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