Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship

Informationen zum Autor Hugh Craig is Professor of English at the University of Newcastle! Australia! where he also directs the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing. Arthur F. Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Director of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies. Klappentext Using computer analysis! this book confronts the main unsolved mysteries of authorship in Shakespeare's canon! providing some surprising conclusions. Zusammenfassung Using a computer-assisted analysis of style! this study addresses the vexed question about what Shakespeare did and did not write. Through close linguistic study! the authors show that Shakespeare worked in collaboration with other writers on a number of plays inside and outside what is generally accepted as his canon. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Hugh Craig and Arthur F. Kinney; 2. Methods Hugh Craig and Arthur F. Kinney; 3. The three parts of Henry VI Hugh Craig; 4. Authoring Arden of Faversham Arthur F. Kinney; 5. Edmond Ironside and the question of Shakespearean authorship Philip Palmer; 6. The authorship of The Raigne of Edward the Third Timothy Irish Watt; 7. The authorship of the Hand-D addition to The Book of Sir Thomas More Timothy Irish Watt; 8. The 1602 additions to The Spanish Tragedy Hugh Craig; 9. Transforming King Lear Arthur F. Kinney; Conclusion Arthur F. Kinney; Appendix A. Plays in the corpus; Appendix B. A list of 200 function words; Glossary.

Product details

• Authors: D. H. Craig, Hugh Kinney Craig
• Assisted by: Hugh Craig (Editor), Craig Hugh (Editor), Arthur F. Kinney (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2009
• EAN: 9780521516235
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51623-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean