Did Shakespeare Write 'Titus Andronicus'? A Study in Elizabethan Literature

Did William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd Write Edward III?

William Shakespeare is believed to be a significant author in the anonymous play,The Reign of King Edward III,published in 1596. However, recently, Thomas Kyd, has been suggested as the primary author. Using a neurolinguistics approach to authorship identification we use a four-feature technique, RPAS, to convert the 19 scenes in Edward III into a multi-dimensional vector. Three complementary a...

Believing in Shakespeare : Faith and Doubt on the Elizabethan Stage Deutsche Shakespeare - Gesellschaft

Two tough nuts to crack: did Shakespeare write the 'Shakespeare' portions of Sir Thomas More and Edward III? Part I

Using ‘new-optics’ stylometric measures of comparative Shakespeare discrepancy we calculate the odds that the ‘Shakespeare’ scenes in STMO and Edw3 could have come by chance from a person of Shakespeare’s writing habits. For STMO, if written in the 1600’s, the ‘Shakespeare’ Hand D-plus verse portion is seven to 26 times less likely to be Shakespeare’s than Shakespeare’s own farthest-outlier bas...

Did Shakespeare write double falsehood? Identifying individuals by creating psychological signatures with text analysis.

More than 100 years after Shakespeare's death, Lewis Theobald published Double Falsehood, a play supposedly sourced from a lost play by Shakespeare and John Fletcher. Since its release, scholars have attempted to determine its true authorship. Using new approaches to language and psychological analysis, we examined Double Falsehood and the works of Theobald, Shakespeare, and Fletcher. Specifica...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...