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Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship

By Arthur F. Kinney , Hugh Craig

Book information

Year
2009
ISBN
0521516234, 0511605439, 9780511605437, 9780521516235
LCC
PR2875 .C73 2009
Open Library ID
OL23235709M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1605396 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
254\254
Topic
Computers
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Craig, Kinney and their collaborators confront 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. In tackling traditional problems with the aid of the processing power of the computer, harnessed through computer science, and drawing upon large amounts of data, the book is an exemplar of the new domain of digital humanities.

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