Detecting multilingualism in early modern drama

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.

Authors

Lucas Van der Deijl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1572-6763)

Institutions

University of Groningen (NL)

Publication Details

Journal: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published: 2026-04-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19660637
Primary Topic: Authorship Attribution and Profiling
Type: article
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Detecting multilingualism in early modern drama

Lucas Van der Deijl

Apr 20, 2026

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Authorship Attribution and Profiling

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Detecting multilingualism in early modern drama

Lucas Van der Deijl

April 20, 2026article en

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

University of Groningen (NL)

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