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Shakespeare's Influence on Politics

The influence of Shakespeare's works on contemporary political language and discourse.

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Jan 29, 2026
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How do computational stylistics and forensic linguistics evaluate the Shakespeare authorship question?

Computational stylistics and approach the authorship question by turning readable prose into measurable signals—word frequencies, function-word patterns, n-grams, and network fingerprints—and using st...

Jan 19, 2026

What are the most influential Shakespearean words in modern political and media language?

Shakespeare supplies both the stock phrases politicians and media reach for—“Et tu, Brute?”, “friends, Romans, countrymen”, “sceptered isle”—and a suite of lexical inventions (assassination, addiction...