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April 23, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Detecting multilingualism in early modern drama

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LDLucas Van der Deijl

Key Points

  • Evaluate multilingualism in early modern drama through computational methods.
  • Analyzed 2501 early modern plays written in 6 languages
  • Automatically detected languages spoken by 33,250 speakers
  • Utilized computational techniques for operationalizing heteroglossia
  • Detected multilingualism across various early modern plays
  • Identified language patterns including French, English, German, Spanish, Dutch, and Italian
  • Revealed the linguistic diversity and complexity in early modern theatre

Abstract

This paper offers a computational operationalisation of heteroglossia in the theatre. It evaluates multilingualism in early modern drama by automatically detecting the languages spoken by 33,250 speakers from 2501 early modern plays written in 6 languages: French, English, German, Spanish, Dutch and Italian.

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Lucas Van der Deijl (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e9ba6b85696592c86eca0ehttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19660638
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