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There are some really interesting things you can find when treating Shakespeare as a DB. There are some characters with no lines: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020

• abathur 6y ago
  In grad school, I did a project for a Shakespeare class that involved picking at how characters used gendered pronouns to see if I could find anything interesting. (I think I built an sqlite3 db from the playshakespeare XML version; I don't recall being able to _find_ another at the time--I think this was early 2010.) One thing I remember finding interesting (if a bit unexpected and frustrating) was how many pronouns were implied in contractions. In the case of ` 's`, the contraction suffix is even double-used for contracted forms of "us" and "his". I ended up having to get a concordance, skim it for potential pronoun-implying contractions, and then verify them in the text. I'm sure I missed a few :)