Hamlet hears Marlowe; Shakespeare reads Virgil

Statistical Stylometrics and the Marlowe-Shakespeare Authorship Debate

I. Authorship Attribution Paradigm Historians, literary scholars, psychologists, and – more recently – computational linguists have long sought a reliable methodology for analyzing texts to determine the identity of their author. Since at least the late nineteenth century (see Mendenhall, 1887; Mascol, 1888a/b), one tool used in the investigation of authorship has been the extraction of statist...

The Marlowe-Shakespeare Authorship Debate: Approaching an Old Problem with New Methods

1 " We must look for consistency. Where there is want of it we must suspect deception. " Sherlock Holmes in The Problem of Thor Bridge

Hamlet and Amleth, Princes of Denmark: Shakespeare and Saxo Grammaticus as historians and kingly actions in the Hamlet/Amleth narrative

Shakespeare in Tehran City Theater: A Study of Appropriation in Hamlet: The Retribution Affair

Focusing on the cultural significations and artistic capacities of naqqali, this article examines the comparative workings of this Iranian popular genre in Hossein Jamali’s Hamlet: The Retribution Affair. Jamali’s adaptation is worth considering since it narrates the whole events and characters of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a classic text of English literature, through naqqali, a classic Persian gen...

baroque and religious permutation in hamlet by william shakespeare

the political, social, and religious conflicts between the church and the protestants during the renaissance and afterward gave a unique dimension to the works of a large number of european artists such as shakespeare. a few decades later, art critics defined this style under the rubric of baroque. the writers of this article conduct an explanatory analysis of shakespeare’s hamlet in the light ...