This repository contains data associated with Rachel White and Brett Greatley-Hirsch, “Ass-troll-ogical Nashe: Revisiting Two Dangerous Comets and A Wonderful Prognostication,” Renaissance Studies 38, no. 3 (2024): 335–362. DOI: 10.1111/rest.12893. For more information, please consult the published article.

The data is released under a CC BY 4.0 license.

RG-JL-AM-TN-meta.csv supplies metadata for the corpus of prose texts by Robert Greene, John Lyly, Anthony Munday, and Thomas Nashe, as well as Two Dangerous Comets and A Wonderful Prognostication, including details about authorship, the source texts used and their dates of publication.

RG-JL-AM-TN-187fwnpp.csv tables word-frequency counts (as a proportion of total tokens) for 187 function words, excluding personal pronouns, in the corpus.

RG-JL-AM-TN-top250mfwnpp.csv tables word-frequency counts (as a proportion of total tokens) for the top 250 most frequent words, excluding personal pronouns, in the corpus.

RG-TN-next250mfwnpp.csv tables word-frequency word-frequency counts (as a proportion of total tokens) for the second 250 most frequent words appearing in a subset corpus of Two Dangerous Comets, A Wonderful Prognostication, and texts by Robert Greene and Thomas Nashe.