Table of Contents

1. Introduction Hugh Craig and Arthur F. Kinney; 2. Methods Hugh Craig and Arthur F. Kinney; 3. The three parts of Henry VI Hugh Craig; 4. Authoring Arden of Faversham Arthur F. Kinney; 5. Edmond Ironside and the question of Shakespearean authorship Philip Palmer; 6. The authorship of The Raigne of Edward the Third Timothy Irish Watt; 7. The authorship of the Hand-D addition to The Book of Sir Thomas More Timothy Irish Watt; 8. The 1602 additions to The Spanish Tragedy Hugh Craig; 9. Transforming King Lear Arthur F. Kinney; Conclusion Arthur F. Kinney; Appendix A. Plays in the corpus; Appendix B. A list of 200 function words; Glossary.

Promotional Information

Using computer analysis, this book confronts the main unsolved mysteries of authorship in Shakespeare's canon, providing some surprising conclusions.

About the Author

Hugh Craig is Professor of English at the University of Newcastle, Australia, where he also directs the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing. Arthur F. Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Director of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies.

Reviews

Review of the hardback: ' … Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship deserves to become a landmark in its field. Not least, it establishes Shakespeare co-authorship on firm grounds.' Notes and Queries

Review of the hardback: '… takes us into a world where probabilities are assessed with mathematical accuracy. … Despite the measured and cautious style with which the computational evidence is presented, there is plenty more excitement in this book.' The Book Collector

Review of the hardback: 'Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship is an ambitious study, impressive in scope, and copiously illustrated with more than seventy tables and figures. The authors' aim of identifying an 'authorial fingerprint', mysteriously unique to a single writer, largely resistant to the passage of time or the constraints of genre, is appealing.' The Times Literary Supplement

'It may contribute to the most exciting, and enduringly important, Shakespeare scholarship of our time …' Gary Taylor, University of Newcastle