Abstract This chapter explores how Shakespeare’s plays have been invoked and characterized in relation to three celebrated archaeological events over the last century: exhumation of Richard III Leicester (2012), forensic examination putative remains Princes Tower (1933), discovery a pair embracing prehistoric skeletons near Mantua (2007). In case III, dramatic truths were seen as fundamentally ...

The understanding of story variation, whether motivated by cultural currents or other factors, is important for applications of formal models of narrative such as story generation or story retrieval. We present the first stage of an experiment to elicit natural narrative variation data suitable for evaluation with respect to story similarity, to qualitative and quantitative analysis of story va...

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet starts out as a classic love story: boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy and girl get married. Of course, it turns into a tragedy when they realize that their relationship is destined to fail. Surprisingly, many offices in corporate America follow a similar-though less morbid--trend. A 2005 survey revealed that 58% of employees had dated someone at wor...

We view the decision of whether to enter a romantic relationship as an option. The decision depends on the value of the option and potential gain from searching for a new partner. We base our model on Gary Becker’s marriage model, and study the impact of different factors on the probability of a romantic relationship as well as a marriage. We also extend our model to explain several different s...