Shakespeare's World – I thought this would be simple but

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Author analyzed Shakespeare's references to places in his plays, using spaCy NER and OpenCage API to extract and geocode 288 place names.

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The project aims to understand Shakespeare's understanding of the world at the end of the 16th century.

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Hacker News Front PageShakespeare's World – I thought this would be simple but5/30/2026, 9:01:44 PM

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