PieSpy, the Java tool for inferring social networks from IRC (which we've written about before) has now been turned on a corpus of static text -- Shakespeare's plays. Here's a bit of Anthony and Cleopatra, with Cleopatra in the center

Best of all, though, is that since PieSpy is made for streaming rather than static text, it treats each play as an ongoing conversation, and creates animations of the social networks over time.