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Heterogeneous Authorship in Early Shakespeare and the Problem of Henry V.

Several recent literary studies have proposed that Shakespeare was not the sole author of Titus Andronicus and the three Henry VI plays. This view is strengthened by a stylometric analysis which uses selected function words and letter frequencies that demonstrably differentiate Marlowe from Shakespe...

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Published in:Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 15 - 29
Main Author: MERRIAM, THOMAS
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Apr1998
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