- Title
- George Chapman, John Davies of Hereford, William Shakespeare, and A Lover's Complaint
- Creator
- Craig, Hugh
- Relation
- Shakespeare Quarterly Vol. 63, Issue 2, p. 147-174
- Relation
- http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/shakespeare_quarterly
- Publisher
- John Hopkins University Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- A Lover's Complaint presents interesting challenges for attribution. Since there are multiple candidates for authorship, and since in principle the true author could be an entirely unknown writer, the task takes the form of a oneauthor- versus-the-world judgment-that is, estimating whether the poem under consideration is more like the works of a given author or more like a mixed set of works by other authors. The text set used here is more limited than Literature Online, but building the play and poem texts into a system that can automatically produce word and word-pair counts has allowed a much larger number of comparisons. Since the early 1900s, scholars of A Lover's Complaint have compiled lists of words that appear in the poem, are used by a given writer, and are relatively rare elsewhere, relying on intuition, concordances, and (finally) online tools. A corpus approach means that we can now establish whether such lists are unusually long, provide evidence of authorship, or simply show what naturally occurs among writers sharing a language and a culture.
- Subject
- sonnets; authorship; A Lover's Complaint; William Shakespeare; George Chapman; John Davies of Hereford
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1058549
- Identifier
- uon:16443
- Identifier
- ISSN:0037-3222
- Language
- eng
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