Here are two examples of what I mean. Shakespeare's idiolect obeys built-in functional constraints. His uniqueness arises in the associational networks established within those constraints. Those clusters, first perceived by the brilliant scholarship of Caroline Spurgeon in 1935, can now be identified, documented, and understood within a scientific but still very human context. Knowledge of these clusters will also add to the scholarly commentary on what he writes.
Lives follow time lines.
The Web makes an ideal vehicle for a populist Shakespeare that appeals to everyone's curiosity about this man and what he wrote. A Shakespearian Grammar. Benson, Larry D. A Glossarial Concordance to the Riverside Chaucer. 2 vols. Shakespeare's Life and Times. CD ROM version, 1994.