TY - BOOK ID - 85473474 TI - Style, computers, and early modern drama : beyond authorship AU - Craig, D. H. AU - Greatley-Hirsch, Brett PY - 2017 SN - 1108126081 1108128556 1108128963 1108129374 1108131026 1108120458 1108129781 1107191017 1316641570 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - English drama KW - Literary style KW - English literature KW - Theater and society KW - English language KW - Germanic languages KW - Actors KW - Society and theater KW - Theater KW - British literature KW - Inklings (Group of writers) KW - Nonsense Club (Group of writers) KW - Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) KW - Literature KW - Style, Literary KW - Language and languages KW - Rhetoric KW - History and criticism. KW - Statistical methods. KW - Research KW - History KW - Style KW - Social status KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85473474 AB - 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. ER -