Style, Computers, and Early Modern Drama

Beyond Authorship

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Av Hugh Craig, Brett Greatley-Hirsch, New South Wales) Craig, Hugh (University of Newcastle, Brett (University of Leeds) Greatley-Hirsch

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Hugh Craig and Brett Greatley-Hirsch extend the computational analysis introduced in Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship (edited by Hugh Craig and Arthur F. Kinney; Cambridge, 2009) beyond problems of authorship attribution to address broader issues of literary history. Using new methods to answer long-standing questions and challenge traditional assumptions about the underlying patterns and contrasts in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Style, Computers, and Early Modern Drama sheds light on, for example, different linguistic usages between plays written in verse and prose, company styles and different character types. As a shift from a canonical survey to a corpus-based literary history founded on a statistical analysis of language, this book represents a fundamentally new approach to the study of English Renaissance literature and proposes a new model and rationale for future computational scholarship in early modern literary studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-08-03
Mått179 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt610 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor298
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107191013

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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.

'This is an outstanding book of major importance to the field of Shakespeare studies specifically and to the wider field of literary studies in general. As well as conveying new knowledge of exceptional interest, it is written in a style that makes it comprehensible by a wide, non-specialist readership. I anticipate that it will generate intense interest, not least because it debunks a series of current myths about authorship and the style of drama in Shakespeare's time, and introduces new methods of literary criticism.' Gabriel Egan, De Montfort University