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Pronouns and genre in Shakespeare’s drama

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Abbreviations

TMP:

The Tempest

TGV:

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

WIV:

The Merry Wives of Windsor

MM:

Measure for Measure

ERR:

The Comedy of Errors

ADO:

Much Ado about Nothing

LLL:

Love’s Labor’s Lost

MND:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

MV:

The Merchant of Venice

AYL:

As You Like It

SHR:

The Taming of the Shrew

AWW:

All’s Well that Ends Well

TN:

Twelfth Night

WT:

The Winter’s Tale

JN:

King John

R2:

Richard the Second

1H4:

Henry IV, Part 1

2H4:

Henry IV, Part 2

H5:

Henry V

1H6:

Henry VI, Part 1

2H6:

Henry VI, Part 2

3H6:

Henry VI, Part 3

R3:

Richard III

H8:

Henry VIII

TRO:

Troilus and Cressida

COR:

Coriolanus

TIT:

Titus Andronicus

ROM:

Romeo and Juliet

TIM:

Timon of Athens

JC:

Julius Caesar

MAC:

Macbeth

HAM:

Hamlet

LR:

King Lear

OTH:

Othello

ANT:

Antony and Cleopatra

CYM:

Cymbeline

PER:

Pericles

TNK:

The Two Noble Kinsmen

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    Barron Brainerd (professor of Mathematical Linguistics)

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Brainerd, B. Pronouns and genre in Shakespeare’s drama. Comput Hum 13, 3–16 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02744988

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