Today Dr. Jenstad described as the best approach to new corpus or archive a process of cutting away what is not relevant--as in the Eastcheap assignment, in which all other locations and districts are eliminated from the search.
For this blog post, I want you to execute a simple and preliminary research query using any of the following:
The Shakespeare Concordance (linked in our blog site)
The Map of Early Modern London (linked in our blog site)
Early English Books Online (only accessible through the IU Library research portal)
Given what you know about how these sites/tools/archives operate, please devise a question (ideally one that relates to one of the plays we have read thus far), then describe how you used your chosen electronic resource to answer it.
Make sure you note:
What you expected to find
What you actually found
Whether the results seemed like something you could turn into an argument (why or why not)
What further questions/lines of inquiry might arise after this first effort
Please complete this assignment by midnight on Tuesday so that we can discuss your work Wednesday.
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