I would like to focus on Elizabeth I’s propaganda or at least her rhetorical style.  I would like to do this through text mining to see where there are similarities in topic and rhetoric and whether/how they change over the course of her reign.  I will be using her speeches from “Collected Works” to do this.

I am not sure how long this will take, but if that is not enough work I would like to then relate these patterns to established historiography.  Do the patterns make sense for the periods outlined by historians?  If there are deviations is that a consequence of the way in which the computer/I mined the text or is that a consequence of something historians have missed.

If I can accomplish both of these things perhaps I would be able to leave off with some interesting research questions as well as a greater grasp on digital methodology.