{"id":900,"date":"2008-11-14T23:35:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T03:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=900"},"modified":"2017-08-18T15:24:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T20:24:25","slug":"a-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/900","title":{"rendered":"A Chain!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via the Shakespeare Geek<\/a>, we find a website that uses a Markov chain<\/a> to generate an alternate version of Hamlet<\/em>. Check it out!<\/a><\/p>\n

From what I can tell, the site works from a table of which words follow other words in the play, and how often. It then constructs a chain by looking at the last word (or few words) that were entered, and choosing a random word of those that actually follow that word (or few words) in the play.<\/p>\n

For example, one place in the play has “Alas! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio.” Another part of the play has “I knew your father.” The Markov chain might generate “Alas! poor Yorick. I knew…” and then, only looking at the last two words “I knew” might follow up with “your father.” The final result would be “Alas! poor Yorick. I knew your father.”<\/p>\n

This is a favorite example<\/a> provided by the author, but there are a lot of funny possibilities. You can keep refreshing the page to get a new randomly-generated Hamlet<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead:
\nEre I could accuse me of the courtier, cousin, and with a look so piteous in purport
\nAs I perceived it, if I gall him slightly,
\nWhips out his rapier, cries, ‘A rat, a touch,
\nThe queen desires you to remain
\nHere is your only jig-maker. What it should be old as I will be laid to us, till I know not–lost all my best obey you, and, at a shot
\nSo art thou to me all the battlements their ordnance fire: proclaim no shame
\nWhen Roscius was an actor in Rome,–
\nAs of a dear father murder’d,
\nWith mirth in funeral and with a crafty madness, like the herald Mercury
\nNew-lighted on a roar? Not one now o’er
\nThe triumph of his own scandal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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