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The small world of Shakespeare's plays
- Abstract:
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Drama, at least according to the Aristotelian view, is effective inasmuch as it successfully mirrors real aspects of human behavior. This leads to the hypothesis that successful dramas will portray fictional social networks that have the same properties as those typical of human beings across ages and cultures. We outline a methodology for investigating this hypothesis and use it to examine ten of Shakespeare's plays. The cliques and groups portrayed in the plays correspond closely to those w...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Walter de Gruyter, Inc. Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Human Nature Journal website
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 397-408
- Publication date:
- 2003-12-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1936-4776
- ISSN:
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1045-6767
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- English
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- ora:4578
- Deposit date:
- 2010-12-08
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- Walter de Gruyter
- Copyright date:
- 2003
- Notes:
- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but the original publication is available at springerlink.com (which you may be able to access via the publisher copy link on this record page). N.B. Professor Dunbar is now based at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford.
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