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This paper is designed to explore the keywords and the structural features of 4-word lexical bundles in two corpora through Scott's(2015) WordSmith Tools 6.0. A target corpus includes two sub-corpora, Shakespeare Drama Corpus(SDC) and Bernard Shaw Drama Corpus(BSDC), and a reference corpus is BNC baby. SDC consists of around 820,000 words compiled from 37 plays, BSDC includes around 930,000 words compiled from 31 plays and BNC baby has around 4 million words. The result of analysis shows that 1) a target corpus has remarkably distinct lexical features from a reference corpus in terms of keywords; 2) a comparative study of lexical bundles between BSDC and BNC baby shows the similar features in spite of their disparateness; 3) STTR(Standardized Type/Token Ratio) of a target corpus shows much higher than that of a reference corpus and it implies that there is the distinctiveness of a target corpus