DraCor: Drama Corpora

The Drama Corpora (DraCor) comprises a set of 21 corpora consisting of theater plays in 14 languages and dialects covering a period of about 2500 years (472 BC – 2017 AC), depending on the particular language. This collection serves as a valuable resource for scholars and researchers involved in the fields of digital humanities, literature studies, and linguistics. The corpus texts have been prepared within DraCor, an open platform for research on (European) drama. For more information visit the official website: https://dracor.org/

The Drama corpora contain various metadata such as title, author, or the year of publication.

Overview of Drama corpora

Here is an overview of the Drama corpora available via Sketch Engine:

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Tools to work with the Drama corpora

A complete set of Sketch Engine tools is available to work with these Drama corpora to generate:

  • word sketch – collocations categorized by grammatical relations
  • thesaurus – synonyms and similar words for every word
  • keywords – terminology extraction of one-word and multi-word units
  • word lists – lists of nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. organized by frequency
  • n-grams – frequency list of multi-word units
  • concordance – examples in context
  • text type analysis – statistics of metadata in the corpus

Note: Some of the corpora do not support all of the mentioned functions.

Drama Corpora (2023)

  • 2023-12 – 21 corpora published

Fischer, Frank, et al. (2019). Programmable Corpora: Introducing DraCor, an Infrastructure for the Research on European Drama. In Proceedings of DH2019: “Complexities”, Utrecht University, doi:10.5281/zenodo.4284002.

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