Linguistic individuation in the plays of Shakespeare and his peers, 1576-1599

从剽窃到艺术天才的定义，每个演讲者或作家使用语言的差异是很重要的。该项目使1600年前的莎士比亚戏剧成为这个更广泛的语言个性问题的决定性测试案例。澳大利亚人是西方个人自决和自我表达传统的继承者；该项目将有助于澄清这一传统背后的一个主要假设。澳大利亚也是英语文化的继承者，莎士比亚是英语文化的关键元素，该项目将通过对他的起源的新认识来丰富对英语文化的理解。

The question of how differently each speaker or writer uses language is important in everything from plagiarism to the definition of artistic genius. The project makes Shakespearean drama before 1600 a definitive test case of this wider problem of individuality in language. Australians are inheritors of the Western tradition of individual self-determination and self-expression; the project will help clarify one of the main assumptions behind this tradition. Australia is also an inheritor of the English-language culture of which Shakespeare is a key element, and the project will enrich the understanding of this culture through new light on his beginnings.