VEP Early Modern Drama Collection

We have curated three corpora of drama-related texts. These corpora are differentiated by a widening definition of what constitutes ‘drama,’ and an extended cut-off date. Each corpus is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Before downloading the corpora, read about the format of the text files here, and about our text processing workflow here. Corpora are generated from Text Creation Partnership (TCP) XML files. Please note that our download corpora do not contain texts from EEBO-TCP Phase II, which will not be in the public domain until five years after the completion of the TCP project for Phase II. However, you can download and explore metadata and Ubiqu+ity token-counts from both the Phase I and Phase II texts–and you can use Ubiqu+Ity to tag all of the files in any corpus with your own rules.