Drama DNA Denmark Part 2 – Establishing a text corpus
Name of applicant
Anna Lawaetz
Title
Senior Researcher
Institution
The Royal Danish Library (RDL)
Amount
DKK 3,173,000
Year
2024
Type of grant
Digital Research Infrastructure
Summary
The project will digitise 6,000 scripts of staged but unpublished plays (1848-1950) held at the Royal Danish Library. It seeks to enhance accessibility to Danish drama and facilitate research opportunities by reintroducing overlooked playwrights and thus revising Danish literary history. The project builds upon existing digital infrastructure and contributes to text corpora of 18,000 playscripts.