APPLIED HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS: SOCIO‐HISTORICAL LINGUISTIC EVIDENCE FOR THE AUTHORSHIP OF RENAISSANCE PLAYS

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Abstract

This paper presents a new type of evidence for the authorship of Renaissance plays. Taking the form of a test case on Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII, the paper demonstrates how differing rates of usage of grammatical variables can be used to identify the hands of collaborators.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)201-226
Number of pages26
JournalTransactions of the Philological Society
Volume88
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1990
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language

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