Hugh Craig, Brett Greatley-Hirsch

Style, Computers, and Early Modern Drama

Beyond Authorship

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Produktbeschreibung

This book uses computational methods and statistical analysis to challenge traditional assumptions about the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781107191013
• ISBN-10: 1107191017
• Artikelnr.: 47820288

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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'.