This book introduces a new method for determining the authorship of Renaissance plays. Based on the rapid rate of change in English grammar in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, socio-historical linguistic evidence allows us to distinguish the hands of Renaissance playwrights within play texts. The present study focuses on Shakespeare, his collaborations with Fletcher and Middleton, and the apocryphal plays. Among the plays examined are Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Macbeth, Pericles, and Sir Thomas More. Using graphs to present statistical data in a readily comprehensible form, the book also contains a wealth of information about the history of the English language during a period of rapid and far-reaching change.
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This book introduces a method for determining the authorship of Renaissance plays by examining the rapid rate of change in English grammar in the late sixteenth- and early-seventeenth centuries. The present study focuses on Shakespeare: his collaborations with Fletcher and Middleton; and the apocryphal plays. Among the plays examined are Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Macbeth, Pericles and Sir Thomas More.
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There is a great number of Elizabethan and Jacobean plays which are either anonymous, wrongly ascribed, or thought to be the work of more than one writer. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
relative marker use, relative marker choice, comparison sample range, unregulated positive declaratives, including average use, unregulated positive declarative sentences, authorship tool, obj totals, relativisation strategies, cent regulation, likely authorship, fifty tokens, relative markers, percentage regulation, regulated usage, total reg, early modern dramatists, textual interference, authorship studies, unregulated forms, marker evidence, regulation rate, significant sample size, personal antecedents, stylistic factors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Double Falshood, Timon of Athens, Statistical Appendix, The Puritan, Comedy of Errors, Lord Cromwell, The Miseries of Enforced Marriage, Yorkshire Tragedy, Edmond Ironside, Sir Thomas More, The London Prodigal, Present-day Standard English, The Birth of Merlin, Arden of Faversham, The Tempest, Sir John Oldcastle, The Persian Princess, John Fletcher, The Rivals, Summary Auxiliary, King's Men, Lake's Middleton, Stationer's Register New!
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There is a great number of Elizabethan and Jacobean plays which are either anonymous, wrongly ascribed, or thought to be the work of more than one writer. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
relative marker use, relative marker choice, comparison sample range, unregulated positive declaratives, including average use, unregulated positive declarative sentences, authorship tool, obj totals, relativisation strategies, cent regulation, likely authorship, fifty tokens, relative markers, percentage regulation, regulated usage, total reg, early modern dramatists, textual interference, authorship studies, unregulated forms, marker evidence, regulation rate, significant sample size, personal antecedents, stylistic factors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Double Falshood, Timon of Athens, Statistical Appendix, The Puritan, Comedy of Errors, Lord Cromwell, The Miseries of Enforced Marriage, Yorkshire Tragedy, Edmond Ironside, Sir Thomas More, The London Prodigal, Present-day Standard English, The Birth of Merlin, Arden of Faversham, The Tempest, Sir John Oldcastle, The Persian Princess, John Fletcher, The Rivals, Summary Auxiliary, King's Men, Lake's Middleton, Stationer's Register New!
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- The Two Noble Kinsmen (Oxford World's Classics) by William Shakespeare on 27 pages
- Timon of Athens (Oxford World's Classics) by William Shakespeare on 10 pages
- The Miseries of Enforced Marriage by George Wilkins on 8 pages
- Sir Thomas More: By Anthony Munday and Others by Vittorio Gabrielli on 8 pages
- The Comedy of Errors (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on 7 pages
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- Shakespeare, Co-Author: A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays by Brian Vickers on 4 pages
- King Edward III by William Shakespeare in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- 'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare: Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall Elegye by Brian Vickers in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism (Early Modern Cultural Studies) by Linda Woodbridge on page 231, and page 234
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare in Back Matter
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