Papers and downloads
The same findings, written for three different audiences. All three free to download, all three under permissive terms.
This site is the interactive companion to a research project. If you’d rather read a single document end to end, or you need to cite the work, or you want the full statistical methodology behind the findings, pick whichever of these three best fits.
Story-driven retelling of the findings
General readers. Seven biographical scenes (Adams in his 1758 diary, Franklin at sixteen in his half-brother's print shop, Washington at Valley Forge, Hamilton in the Treasury) with the data woven into the prose rather than crowding it.
≈16 pages · Word (.docx)
Full corpus-linguistic write-up with statistical methodology
Researchers in corpus linguistics, computational humanities, and legal / political-theory readers who want to see the methods. Follows the Gries & Paquot (2020) structure: introduction, methods, eight case studies, general discussion. Every claim traces to a CSV row and a Python script.
≈40 pages · Word (.docx)
Catalogue of every verifiable Shakespeare reference
Literary and historical readers who want the raw evidence. Lists all 61 HIGH/MEDIUM-confidence verbatim quotations (every one from Adams) and the 76 by-name references across four Founders, each with the date, the document, and a verifiable passage.
≈30 pages · Word (.docx)
Every interactive view on this site reads from one of twelve JSON files. They are all downloadable directly, under permissive terms. Each file’s schema is documented in the site repository.
Reference catalogue
All 61 HIGH/MEDIUM-confidence direct Shakespeare quotations and 76 by-name references, each with founder, date, source play, KWIC context, and Founders Online doc_id.
catalogue.json · 103 KB
Differential collocates (14 abstract nouns)
Top 20 distinctive collocates of honour, power, love, friend, virtue, fortune, death, mind, government, law, people, nature, truth, liberty in each corpus. Powers the Honour Test explorer.
collocates.json · 39 KB
Eleven-method convergence and ranking
Per-founder composite scores and per-method ranks across all eleven measures of Shakespearean influence. Powers the Ranking explorer.
composite.json · 3 KB
Metaphor-family rates
Per-million rates for eight conceptual-metaphor families (EDIFICE, BODY, SHIP, FIRE, PLANT, PATH, MOTION, CONTAINER) across each Founder and Shakespeare. Powers the Metaphor Fingerprints explorer.
metaphor.json · 2 KB
Archaic-form survival (per form)
Per-million rates for 37 archaic Shakespearean forms (thou, hath, methinks, prithee, betwixt, etc.) in each Founder's corpus alongside Shakespeare's. Powers the Archaic Threshold explorer.
archaic_forms.json · 17 KB
Archaic-form survival summary
Per-Founder summary of archaic-form survival ratio and overall archaic token rate.
archaic.json · 1 KB
Play-level citation counts
Per-play aggregated citation counts from the catalogue, broken down by Founder. Powers the Play Atlas explorer.
play_atlas.json · 2 KB
Sentence-length distributions
5,000 random sentences per author, sentence-length histograms with mean/median/stdev. Powers the Sentence Length explorer.
sentence_length.json · 3 KB
Function-word stylometric fingerprint
Per-million rates of 36 high-frequency function words across each author's full corpus. The Mosteller-Wallace authorship signal. Powers the Function-Word Fingerprint explorer.
function_words.json · 7 KB
Modal-verb diachronic rates
Per-million rates of ten English modal verbs binned by decade across each Founder's career, plus Shakespeare's fixed reference rates. Powers the Modal-Verb Shift explorer.
modal_verbs.json · 8 KB
Candidate echoes (the relaxed tier)
Curated top 5,000 of 35,794 short verbatim matches (4-5 words) between the Founders' corpus and Shakespeare's complete works that don't clear the main catalogue's strict threshold. Each row carries the distinctive Shakespeare content words, KWIC context, a quality ranking, and a HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW confidence tier. The full 35,794-row set lives in the live Supabase backend; the bundled file is a static sample.
candidate_echoes.json · 4 MB
Thematic allusions
Nineteen distinct passages where a Founder invokes a Shakespearean character (Brutus, Falstaff, Hotspur, etc.) as a type rather than quoting Shakespeare directly. Classified using surrounding-context cues.
thematic_allusions.json · 22 KB
The corpus itself, all eight statistical case studies (CS1–CS8) and the three additional evidence-based measures, and the analysis scripts behind every figure are available in the research repository. The repository contains the SQLite database (rebuildable from the ingest scripts), the 85+ CSV outputs, the eight figures, and the three reports.
The site repository for Shakespeare in the Republic (including the page templates, the design tokens, and the data export pipeline that produces the JSON this site reads) is at github.com/willimj3/shakespeare-in-the-republic.
Citing the work: the scholarly paper above is the recommended citation. For specific findings, the per-case-study CSV files in the research repository (e.g. tables/catalogue_direct_quotes.csv for the passage-level catalogue) are the authoritative source.
All three documents are versioned alongside the data they describe. If you find an error or want to flag a passage, open an issue on GitHub.