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Tracking Social Networking In Shakespeare Plays
An anonymous reader writes "By feeding PieSpy (an IRC bot used to visualise social networks) with the entire texts of Shakespeare plays, it became possible to produce drawings of the social networks present in his plays - it is now possible to visualize the relationships between the characters in his works, and see Shakespeare in an entirely new light."
feeding a program written in Shakespeare Programming Language to it? Should be real fun!
Facinating. Unfortunately, the video on the web site raised an error. Slashdot effect? If this technique were applied to other great works I wonder if any patterns might emerge?
... the latest craze about social networks like Orkut or Friendster? I'm indifferent to the internet or the people on the internet so I highly doubt social networks on the net will ever be even slightly interesting for me, personally. But I really don't see what's worth the fuss about them, because they aren't exactly incorporating ground-breaking technologies, stunning visualizations nor original and efficient business plans. So while I don't doubt the fact these "social networks" are fun for those participating, I don't actually see anything about them that's worthy of a front page post on Slashdot...
Maybe a nice new topic on Slashdot called "The Internet Society" with stuff like *logs, social networks and everything else regarding the social aspects of the internet?
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You must of had a pretty crappy teacher then. TV pretty much made me hate shakespear back in the day, but my highschool english teacher actually made it good. Macbeth kicks ass, and to you sir, I bite my thumb.
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(If anything a diagram of social relationships would reduce them to something that looked more similar than they really are.)
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Feed Stephen King's books through this thing. I know (sad) people that have dedicated huge portions of their lives to finding the interconnections between his books and characters. It'd be interesting to see just how deeply connected all of his books are.
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This can be used by the FBI do track down script kiddies. They put it on a couple of channels where the kiddie is on, see who's the kiddie's friends are, identify them, catch them, interrogate them, find out who the kiddie is and catch him.
...only for Schiller plays because that's what's usually read in German classrooms. Basically, we created a chart for every play where all the characters were connected by four different types of arrows which were labeled "kills", "tries to kill", "fucks" and "tries to fuck". Ah, the memories...
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I think he would've been fine with it, as long as he was getting his cut. You have to remember that most of his plays were adaptations of others' work (in other literary forms sometimes), he gave us sequels, and at least in one major case (King Lear), he took a popular legend and gave it a surprise ending. He strikes me as having been *perfectly* willing to let a story morph as necessary to make it more interesting for its medium.
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I wonder what Shakespeare would think if he knew that his plays were learned by students the world over in TEXT format. These were -plays- after all. I think he would be happier with people viewing them as movies than just sitting and reading them.
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I wonder how this would look if applied to the /. friends/foes database.
It'd be interesting to see how the community is aligned.
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Huh?
Considering that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern can almost be seen as one character in Hamlet, I'm curious as to why Rosencrantz is in the network, but Guildenstern is not.
- I am forgetting a scene
- I am misreading the graph
- This thing isn't very accurate
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Oddly enough, there seems to be a direct correlation between the number of years spent studying Shakespeare and the intellectual distance from the mob that first appreciated it. Every once in awhile someone hauls out the perennial "let's take something blatantly trashy a deliver as high Shakespearean" or vice versa and the audience coos and gushes at the artistic genius of the director. Meanwhile, the rest of the population takes a knowing glance, shrugs, and wanders off.
A particularly welcome use of technology, although as a budding English teacher I may be somewhat biased... ;)
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Unfortunately, his work would still be stolen from the pens of giants that came long before him.
He probably would be doing things like, say, The Musketeer, or that Count of Monte Cristo movie, but doing them the way they should have been done.
Oddly, the graph for a Spaulding Gray movie looks an awful lot like a Steven Segal movie.
Perhaps "Under Siege" would appear as a spiral (like a black hole) with him at the center!
Actually, Spaulding Gray (I've only seen Gray's Anatomy) plays many parts in his plays/movies. So a good textual analysis would reveal that.
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