Text Mining the Works of Christopher Marlowe
Ruben Thoplan · 2014
In this paper, the application of statistical techniques in literature through Christopher Marlowe’s works is explored through the use of text data mining algorithms. A tag cloud is used as visualization technique to identify patterns in the words used by Marlowe in his plays and poem. A cluster analysis using the complete linkage method with squared Euclidean distance is adopted to identify any agglomeration of the different texts of Marlowe. The findings of this paper shows that Marlowe uses the words “king”, “death”, “love”, “heaven”, “crown”, “soul ” relatively often in his plays or poem. Besides, three main agglomerations of the texts of Marlowe can be identified.