Style, Computers, and Early Modern Drama - Beyond Authorship

Informationen zum Autor Hugh Craig, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, has published on authorship attribution problems, mainly in Shakespeare, and on wider stylistic questions. He has ongoing collaborations in bioinformatics and speech pathology, resulting in articles in some leading science journals. He is on the Authorship Attribution Board for the New Oxford Shakespeare and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Brett Greatley-Hirsch is University Academic Fellow in Textual Studies and Digital Editing at the University of Leeds. He is Coordinating Editor of Digital Renaissance Editions, and co-editor of Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association. Before moving to the UK, he served as Vice President of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association. Klappentext This book uses computational methods and statistical analysis to challenge traditional assumptions about the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Zusammenfassung This book uses computational methods and statistical analysis to explore latent trends in early modern drama! to challenge critical assumptions about the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries and to offer new readings of familiar texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Methods; 2. Prose and verse: sometimes 'transparent', sometimes meeting with 'a jolt'; 3. Sisters under the skin: character and style; 4. Stage properties: bed, blood, and beyond; 5. 'Novelty carries it away': cultural drift; 6. Authorship, company style, and horror vacui; 7. Restoration plays and 'the giant race, before the flood'.

Product details

• Authors: Hugh Craig, Hugh (University of Newcastle Craig, Hugh Hirsch Craig, Craig Hugh, Brett Greatley-Hirsch, Brett (University of Leeds) Greatley-Hirsch
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781107191013
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19101-3
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Englisch, English, Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights