A new chronology for Shakespeare’s plays

Bruster, Douglas; Smith, Grant K.

doi:10.1093/llc/fqu068

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“…Charles The First has the highest number of breaks only after syllable 6 (and not too many: 18.7%, cf. with Byron's The Two Foscari), while The Cenci shows a different trait: the highest number of breaks appears after syllables 4 (22.5%) and 6 (19.2%); this is not unlike а transition from the earlier to the later Shakespeare, something like Henry V, Julius Caesar or Othello; the latter both I and Douglas Bruster attribute to an earlier date than the years traditionally assumed (Tarlinskaja 2014, Appendix B;Bruster 2015;Bruster, Smith 2016;cf. Taylor, Egan 2017).…”

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Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Shelley’s The Cenci: Versification

Tarlinskaja

2021

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The article describes the development of English iambic pentameter during 260 years, 1561–1821. The evolution of the versification went in waves: strict (Renaissance) – loose (Baroque) – strict (Classicism) – loose (Romanticism); the periods developed “over the head” of adjacent periods. The similarity of the Renaissance and Classicism vs. Baroque and Romanticism was probably rhythmical homonymy rather than imitation. The article reveals the versification similarity of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Shelley’s The Cenci. The similarity of versification added to the noticed earlier similarity of motifs, phraseology and vocabulary.

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Section: Strong Syntactic Breaksmentioning

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Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Shelley’s The Cenci: Versification

Tarlinskaja

2021

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“…[Argamon et al, 2007;Milička J., Kubát, 2013;Stamou, 2008 и др.]. Все это ставит задачу поиска аналогичных решений для дифференциации стиля, или анализа его варьирования, в том числе во времени, для решения задач датировки, повышения надежности атрибуции и сходных проблем, в основе которых лежит задача по моделированию изменений индивидуально-авторского стиля [Bruster, Smith, 2016;Hoover, 2017;Juola, 2007;Yu, 2014 и др. ].…”

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Linguotoxic Processes in the Modern German Language

Trishina¹

2023

Izvestia of Smolensk State University

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The article substantiates the relevance of the study of linguotoxins as integral components of communication. The study is carried out on the example of the German language world picture, and such linguotoxic processes as unjustified borrowings, label formation, vulgarization of language / speech, etc. are considered. The study of the corresponding problem field suggests that the phenomena of toxic communication in the German language are widespread. A number of extralinguistic factors, which include, for example, the migration crisis, gender discrimination, the active expansion of foreign constructions into the German language, etc., have an impact on the speech of native speakers, and, consequently,on the integral construct of the language. The social significance and interdisciplinary nature of this problem require an integrated linguistic approach to its study and description in order to improve the communicative level of native speakers and reduce verbal aggression, social tension, and ensure the purity and health of the language.

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“…In the latter part of the nineteenth century Frederick G. Fleay argued that changes in Shakespeare's versification were a useful guide to chronology [2, pp. 122-38] and this was taken up and extended by twentieth-century researchers [3,4,5,6] and continues in the twenty-first [7]. The editors of the 1987 Oxford Shakespeare used changes in the incidence of colloquialisms in the dialogue of the plays as an index of the order of the plays [8, pp.…”

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Multiple regression techniques for modeling dates of first performances of Shakespeare-era plays

Moscato,

Craig,

Egan

et al. 2021

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The date of the first performance of a play of Shakespeare's time must usually be guessed with reference to multiple indirect external sources, or to some aspect of the content or style of the play. Identifying these dates is important to literary history and to accounts of developing authorial styles, such as Shakespeare's. In this study, we took a set of Shakespeare-era plays (181 plays from the period 1585-1610), added the best-guess dates for them from a standard reference work as metadata, and calculated a set of probabilities of individual words in these samples. We applied 11 regression methods to predict the dates of the plays at an 80/20 training/test split. We withdrew one play at a time, used the best-guess date metadata with the probabilities and weightings to infer its date, and thus built a model of date-probabilities interaction. We introduced a memetic algorithm-based Continued Fraction Regression (CFR) which delivered models using a small number of variables, leading to an interpretable model and reduced dimensionality. An in-depth analysis of the most commonly occurring 20 words in the CFR models in 100 independent runs helps explain the trends in linguistic and stylistic terms. The analysis with the subset of words revealed an interesting correlation of signature words with the Shakespeare-era play's genre.Keywords Shakespeare-era plays • continued fraction regression • dating of plays • play's genre • Memetic Algorithm

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A new chronology for Shakespeare’s plays

Cited by 10 publications

References 21 publications

Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Shelley’s The Cenci: Versification

Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Shelley’s The Cenci: Versification

Linguotoxic Processes in the Modern German Language

Multiple regression techniques for modeling dates of first performances of Shakespeare-era plays

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