Canonizing Shakespeare: <i>The Passionate Pilgrim</i>, <i>England’s Helicon</i> and the Question of Authenticity

Bednarz, James P.

doi:10.1017/ccol052187839x.019

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“…She also adds there is some doubt surrounding the authorship of the Barnfield and Griffin poems. Reference [6] disputes Shakespeare's authorship, while [7] suggest eight, not 12 of the anonymous poems are Shakespeare's. However, [2] suggest poems 7, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 19 use a similar six-line stanza format to Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, and poems 4, 6, and 9 are about Venus and Adonis and have Shakespearian similarities, but [5] says poems 7 and 13 resemble Robert Greene's poems.…”

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confidence: 98%

Stylometric Techniques for Multiple Author Clustering

Kernot¹,

Bossomaier²,

Bradbury³

2017

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Abstract-In 1598-99 printer, William Jaggard named Shakespeare as the sole author of The Passionate Pilgrim even though Jaggard chose a number of non-Shakespearian poems in the volume. Using a neurolinguistics approach to authorship identification, a four-feature technique, RPAS, is used to convert the 21 poems in The Passionate Pilgrim into a multi-dimensional vector. Three complementary analytical techniques are applied to cluster the data and reduce single technique bias before an alternate method, seriation, is used to measure the distances between clusters and test the strength of the connections. The multivariate techniques are found to be robust and able to allocate nine of the 12 unknown poems to Shakespeare. The authorship of one of the Barnfield poems is questioned, and analysis highlights that others are collaborations or works of yet to be acknowledged poets. It is possible that as many as 15 poems were Shakespeare's and at least five poets were not acknowledged.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%