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APPLIED HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS: SOCIO‐HISTORICAL LINGUISTIC EVIDENCE FOR THE AUTHORSHIP OF RENAISSANCE PLAYS 1
Author(s) -
Hope By Jonathan
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
transactions of the philological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-968X
pISSN - 0079-1636
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-968x.1990.tb00638.x
Subject(s) - the renaissance , linguistics , history , test (biology) , linguistic change , literature , philosophy , art , art history , paleontology , biology
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.