Published April 20, 2026 | Version v1
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Detecting multilingualism in early modern drama

  • 1. ROR icon University of Groningen

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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.

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