Thimm’s Shakspeariana from 1564–1864 and stopwords for digital text analysis

This data deposit has two elements: a digital text and a list of stopwords for text analysis. The digital text preserved here is of Franz Thimm’s Shakspeariana from 1564–1864 (second edition 1872) used for analysis in Laura Estill, “Digital Text Analysis and Early Shakespeare Bibliography: Using Voyant Tools with Bad OCR,” Digital Studies/Champ Numérique, 2025. Original text adapted from the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/shakspearianafro00thimrich; changes documented in journal article.

The selection of stopwords, adapted from the lists created by Geoffrey Rockwell, Stéfan Sinclair, and the team at Voyant Tools (voyant-tools.org/), is also detailed in the article.