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Use of Metaphor in Shakespeare's Plays and its Potential
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Albert J. Kippleby

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Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the \\
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University \\
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

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Doctor of Philosophy \\
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Literature and Technology

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Neill A. Kipp, Chair \\
Emilio J. Arce \\
Scott A. Guyer \\
Laura Weiss

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July 16, 1997 \\
Blacksburg, Virginia

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Keywords: Metaphysics, Information Retrieval, Spacecraft
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Copyright 1997, Albert J. Kippleby

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{\large Use of Metaphor in Shekespeare's Plays and its Potential
Application in Twenty-first Century Literature}

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Albert J. Kippleby

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(ABSTRACT)

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The need for concrete examples increases when technology becomes
difficult to explain.  In documentation for computer systems
especially, we see a wide audience of field experts attempting to
comprehend documentation for computer software and hardware of which
they should only require a cursory understanding.  Additionally, as
the pace of the information age quickens we see document authors
struggle for \textit{examplia-concretes} with wide applicability, and
consistently rely on excerpts from Shakespearean literature as a
public-domain source for their various explications.

We predict the twenty-first century will be no different.  Actuarial
studies show explosion in the information industry such that four out
of five persons will be \textit{bona fide} electronic document
authors; many of those will have one or more college degrees.  We
prove through computer simulation \textsc{Machinum Simitatores} that
authors of twenty-first century literature will be affected by these
examples and will include metaphor with Shakespearean source into
their writing with increasing frequency.

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That this work received support from the Southeastern Universities
Research Association (SURA) ``Monticello Library Project'' is purely
coincidental.

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William Shakespeare has profoundly affected the field of literature
worldwide.  In the United States there was a surge of Shakespearean
literature starting in the 1960s, with the opening of the Montgomery
Shakespearean festival and continuing into the present ...

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Albert was born on a sunny day...

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