Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/917453
- Title
- Shakespeare, computers and the mystery of authorship
- Author/Creator
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Craig, Hugh;
Kinney, Arthur F.
- Institution
- The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
- Description
- This book confronts the main unsolved mysteries in Shakespeare's canon through computer analysis of Shakespeare's and other writers' styles. In some cases their analysis confirms the current scholarly consensus, bringing long-standing questions to something like a final resolution. In other areas the book provides more surprising conclusions: that Shakespeare wrote the 1602 additions to The Spanish Tragedy, for example, and that Marlowe along with Shakespeare was a collaborator on Henry VI, Parts 1 and 2. The methods used are more wholeheartedly statistical, and computationally more intensive, than any that have yet been applied to Shakespeare studies. The book also reveals how word patterns help create a characteristic personal style.
- Relation
- http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521516235
- Date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Keyword(s)
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William Shakespeare;
disputed authorship;
literary styles;
statistical methods
- Resource Type
- book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/917453
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780521516235
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