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In Shakespeare studies, network visualization is offered as a digital humanities technique that may "explore" and "negotiate" the gap between text and performance. The network created for this project turns literary texts into a network of spatial relations by tracing the relationships between characters in space using the language of Shakespeare's plays. Our research offers a particular technique for network visualization and demonstrates how it might be an important instrument to reevaluate how we perceive social dysfunction in Shakespeare's tragedies. As a result, this essay makes a two-point claim. From a methodological perspective, we contend that the "blockage" of staging and theatrical space can be eliminated from the play's language through the use of network visualization. Our case study demonstrates how this approach might be applied to reevaluate the more general problem of social disorder in Shakespeare's tragedies as a kind of Shakespearean literary criticism. This analysis's network visualization shows how Shakespeare's plays' language builds the interactions between characters in space in a regular and repeatable manner. This work is the inception of a digital methodology that reads the plays and investigates the linguistic codes that structure stage space in an effort to bridge text and performance in Shakespeare studies.
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