playDates: Estimated Dates for Specified Plays

Description Usage Arguments Details Value

Description

The vector text specifies one or more plays; used internally these will be the keys identifying the various plays. Otherwise they should match the title of the desired play, as for findPlay().

Usage

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Arguments

text

character vector. Either the key(s) for the plays or some text that uniquely matches the corresponding title. Call playTitles() to see the table of keys and titles.

Details

The dates are taken from those given on opensourceshakespeare.org. The actual dates of first performance of the plays is not always known, and some are debated. Our philosophy is just to regard these as useful calibration when looking for style changes or other indicators of the changing environment in which the plays appeared.

Value

the years as a character vector.


johnmchambers/shakespeare documentation built on May 19, 2019, 5:16 p.m.