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Title:
"Stylometric Analysis of Characters in Shakespeare's Plays"
Author:
Savoy, Jacques.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2023
Publication Information:
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 38, no. 3 (2023): 1238–46.
Annotation:

Describes computational techniques that can identify if short Shakespeare passages are spoken by a male or female character, "demonstrating that the author adopts a distinct style for each gender." English summary, 1238.

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Title:
"The Authorship of George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield"
Author:
Ilsemann, Hartmut.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2023
Annotation:

Using stylometric analysis with R Stylo, suggests that George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield is an early play by Shakespeare that was purposefully excised from later constructions of his canon in, for instance, the first folio. English summary 167.

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Title:
"Shakespeare Machine: New AI-Based Technologies for Textual Analysis"
Author:
Ehrett, Carl; Ghita, Lucian; Ranwala, Dillon; Menezes, Alison.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2024
Publication Information:
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 39, no. 2 (2024): 522–31.
Annotation:

Applying natural language processing (NLP) techniques, namely sentiment analysis, in a consideration of gender and genre, finds "that male characters in Shakespeare’s plays are angrier, more fearful, more surprised, less loving, and less sad than female characters, even when controlling for the effects of genre." English summary, 522.

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Title:
"R Stylo and the Authorship Determination of Henry V"
Author:
Ilsemann, Hartmut.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2023
Publication Information:
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 38, no. 4 (2023): 1577–81.
Annotation:

Applies stylometric analysis (using R Stylo) to confirm Thomas Merriam's argument that Shakespeare adapted Henry V from an earlier Marlovian play (q.v.).

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Title:
"Why Shakespeare Should Change as Well as Challenge"
Author:
Johnson, Laurie.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2022
Publication Information:
English in Australia 57, no. 2 (2022): 13–21.
Annotation:

"Argues that [Shakespeare's] plays challenge audiences and readers in ways that can represent barriers to learning" and that "in overcoming these barriers, the students can complete valuable lessons on how to learn." English summary, 13.

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Title:
"Is it time to reconsider Henry V?"
Author:
Merriam, Thomas.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2023
Publication Information:
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 38, no. 3 (2023): 1158–65.
Annotation:

Focusing on "word length in verse sections," offers a quantitative argument to suggest that Shakespeare had a co-author for Henry V or that Shakespeare rewrote an existing play, possibly by Christopher Marlowe. English summary, 1158.

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Title:
"Longing to Stay Tied: Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet as a Work of Creative Criticism"
Author:
Muse, Amy.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2023
Publication Information:
Comparative Drama 57, no. 1-2 (2023): 9–27.
Annotation:

Positions Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (q.v.) as a work of "creative criticism" that "reaches for what we’re really after: an encounter with the inner life of Shakespeare." Suggests that O'Farrell interprets Hamlet as a memento vivere (instead of a memento mori) for his lost son, Hamnet, written for Anne Hathaway (Agnes, in the novel).

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Title:
"The True Story of Fictionality"
Author:
Robinson, Benedict S..
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2024
Publication Information:
Critical Inquiry 50, no. 3 (2024): 543–64.
Annotation:

Refutes Catherine Gallagher's ideas about "the rise of fictionality” by showing that Othello presents a "probable fiction," muddying clear-cut distinctions between truth and fiction. English summary, online.

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Title:
"Hamlet and the Saying of What Is Said"
Author:
Saval, P. Kishore.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2024
Publication Information:
Cultural Critique 124 (2024): 127–63.
Annotation:

Argues that "Hamlet’s time is out of joint, and this time is at the root of its tragic promise and frustration." Considers saying as showing, silence and noise, being, and meaning in Hamlet. English summary, online. 

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