Style, Computers, and Early Modern Drama

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-107-19101-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 591 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Craig, Hugh

Greatley-Hirsch, Brett

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Methods; 2. Prose and verse: sometimes 'transparent', sometimes meeting with 'a jolt'; 3. Sisters under the skin: character and style; 4. Stage properties: bed, blood, and beyond; 5. 'Novelty carries it away': cultural drift; 6. Authorship, company style, and horror vacui; 7. Restoration plays and 'the giant race, before the flood'.

Über Autor(innen)

Greatley-Hirsch, Brett
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.

Craig, Hugh
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.