The Lazarus ‘Tag Cloud’
In a recent discussion of the technologies available in humanities computing, Matthew Kirschenbaum used “Tag Crowd“ to generate an interesting visualization of “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Inspired by his work, I have created a “tag cloud” visualization of the Towneley Lazarus play:
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created at TagCrowd.com
Now to analyze it in my spare time. But at first glance, I’m struck by the emphasis of words like “amend” and “worms.” Read the play and my Jones essay, and I think you’ll see why I think this is interesting stuff.