his skills as an artist: Hunter had need of facile draughtsmen to produce representations of specimens in his collections. In return for Clift's services, Hunter was to bring the young man up as a surgeon. Although Clift lived in the extensive establishment in Leicester Square and regularly acted as Hunter's amanuensis, there is tantalizing little about his master in these letters. In a rare re...

In our work we have developed text visualization tools to meet the needs of literary scholars. While our work in this domain may on the surface seem quite different from other text visualization applications, we have encountered principles that generalize and will be useful for text data as distant from literature as social media. The way that digital humanities scholars use and argue about tex...

Given Shakespeare's status as "the secular Bible," it is surprising that his work has not been examined more closely to consider its spiritual teachings. As Buddhist studies increase in popularity in the West, more and more Buddhist scholars are being drawn to evaluate Shakespeare's work in light of Buddhist traditions. Of special interest today is the perception of Shakespeare's works as point...