The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.1603  Saturday, 24 September 2005

From: 		Bob Grumman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: 		Thursday, 22 Sep 2005 16:43:04 -0400
Subject: 16.1579 Two New Authorship Studies
Comment: 	Re: SHK 16.1579 Two New Authorship Studies

 >I'm sorry to try the patience of SHAKSPEReans, but Ward
 >Elliott's stylometrical claims cannot be allowed to pass
 >unchallenged.

SNIP

 >Elliott declines to come to trial on equal terms, so I'll put
 >the matter clearly thus: He and his intellectual allies have
 >decisively proved by numerical analysis that certain anonymous
 >Elizabethan and Jacobean dramas are not by Shakespeare. But
 >every other measure (line and word parallels, analogies of
 >character and scene structure, thematic convergence, philosophical
 >and historical viewpoint, and many other dimensions familiar to
 >literary criticism) show quite otherwise.

Every other measure?!  Come on, Michael.  One measure is hard evidence, 
like names on title pages, and neither side has that.  Mr. Elliott and 
the other stylometricists haven't come close to convincing me of 
anything yet, but I'm convinced what they have to offer will become of 
central importance to authorship studies eventually.

--Bob Grumman

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