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1.2 Confusion matrix for Random Forests classification of 2,000-word non-overlapping segments in a training dataset of 109 segments drawn from plays listed in Table 1.1, using the 500 most frequent words.
1.3 Confusion matrix for Random Forests classification of 109 training and 29 test segments of plays listed in Table 1.1, segmented into 2,000-word non-overlapping blocks, using the 500 most frequent words.
2.1 Prose and verse parts for seven Shakespearean characters.
2.2 Fourteen more or less ‘all-prose’ and fourteen more or less ‘all-verse’ comedies.
2.3 Paired sets of fourteen mixed prose–verse plays: comedies and tragedies, plays by Jonson and Shakespeare, and plays dated 1600–4 and 1610–14.
2.4 Five randomly paired comparison sets of fourteen mixed prose–verse plays.
2.5 Set of fourteen comedies with prose-to-verse ratios between 1:1 and 3:17.
2.6 Shannon entropies of ‘all-prose’ versus ‘all-verse’ comedies and prose portions versus verse portions of mixed-mode comedies.
4.1 Distribution of props in 160 plays from the professional theatre, 1590–1609.
5.1 Correlations between date of first performance and PC1 score for 203 plays between 1585 and 1624, grouped by genre.
5.2 Correlations between date of first performance and PC1 score for 203 plays between 1585 and 1624, grouped by author.
6.2 Confusion matrix for Random Forests classification of 2,000-word non-overlapping segments of plays with well-attributed first companies, c.1581–94, using the 500 most frequent words.
6.3 Confusion matrix for Random Forests classification of 2,000-word non-overlapping segments of plays associated with the Admiral's (Nottingham's) Men, Derby's (Strange's) Men, and Queen Elizabeth's Men, c.1581–94, using the 500 most frequent words.
6.4 Confusion matrix for Random Forests classification of 2,000-word non-overlapping segments of 9 comedies by Richard Brome associated with Beeston's Boys, the King's Men, and King's Revels Company, 1629–40, using the 500 most frequent words.
