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Librarians, archivists, linguists, and students of literature are rapidly coming to realize that electronic computers, or, better, data-processing machines, can help to solve problems in fields ordinarily regarded as remote from the world of advanced technology.[1] Already there is a formidable bibliography of books and articles discussing automation in the library, automatic search, indexing, and abstracting of documents, automatic linguistic analysis, and automatic translation.[2] So far as I know, however, no papers have been published on the application of electronic aids to the solution of problems in Elizabethan scholarship. The chief purpose of the present essay is to stimulate wider discussion of such applications. I shall concentrate mainly on the possible uses of computer-prepared concordances to and magnetic tape files of Elizabethan texts.[3]
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