Style, computers, and early modern drama : beyond authorship / Hugh Craig, Brett Greatley-Hirsch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craig, D. H., 1952- author.

Greatley-Hirsch, Brett, 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

Literary style--Statistical methods.

Literary style.

English literature--Research--Statistical methods.

English literature.

Theater and society--England--History--16th century.

Theater and society.

English language--Style--Statistical methods.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 283 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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'.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-12608-1

1-108-12855-6

1-108-12896-3

1-108-12937-4

1-108-13102-6

1-108-12045-8

1-108-12978-1