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

نویسندگان

  • Ward E. Y. Elliott
  • Robert J. Valenza
چکیده

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 baseline threshold block. Shakespeare authorship for it in the 1600’s seems to us improbable but not impossible. In Hand D-plus were written in the 1590’s, it would be ten times less probable, and not such a close call. The odds that Shakespeare could have written the entire play at any time are vanishingly low. In terms of Shakespeare discrepancy, we would say that Hand D-plus belongs more in the high Apocrypha than in the Canon. Taken separately, four of the five ‘Shakespeare’ blocks of Edw3 fall inside our Shakespeare ballpark. So does a sixth block, scenes 4.05 to 4.09. If we followed the consensus strictly, all five Shakespeare blocks, taken as a group, would not make a probable solo Shakespeare ascription. However, if we switched 4.04 to

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • LLC

دوره 25  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010