3.1349 Shakespeare (54)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 3 May 90 16:41:07 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1349. Thursday, 3 May 1990.
(1) Date: Tue, 5 01 22:09:07 MDT (18 lines)
From: <DMIALL@UALTAVM>
Subject: Shakespeare study
(2) Date: Thu, 3 May 90 11:16 GMT (25 lines)
From: Oxford Text Archive <ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: Elliott's Shakespeare
(3) Date: Thu, 3 MAY 90 16:57:12 GMT (21 lines)
From: SA_RAE@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK
Subject: recent notes on shakespeare
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Date: Tue, 5 01 22:09:07 MDT
From: <DMIALL@UALTAVM>
Subject: Shakespeare study
University of Alberta
In response to Michael Hart's query about etext research on Shakespeare.
I didn't hear the CBC report, but the study made front page Sunday
before last in the British newspaper _The Observer_ (22nd April). The
work is that of Ward Elliott at Clermont McKenna College, California.
Some of the authorship tests to show the stuff is Shakespeare are said to
be based on punctuation and hyphenation. The British scholar David
Norbrook is cited as questioning the validity of analysing these
aspects, which were largely decided by the later editors. I look
forward to the forthcoming arguments with interest.
Regards,
David
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Date: Thu, 3 May 90 11:16 GMT
From: Oxford Text Archive <ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: Elliott's Shakespeare
Much of the corpus of texts on which Ward Elliott's well-publicised
Shakespearean authorship study was carried out was deposited here at the
OTA by Dr Elliott earlier this year. Disappointed Oxfordians, Baconians
and anyone who thinks Shakespeare actually came from Mars will no doubt
be glad to know that they can obtain copies of the same database Ward
Elliott used from us, and no doubt squeeze some entirely different
numbers out of them.
A new printed catalogue of our holdings is now available by post. The
new electronic version will be posted here in a day or two.
Lou Burnard
Oxford Text Archive
p.s.
Just for the record --- three consecutive hyphens in my writings should
usually be interpreted as a caesura rather than as a euphemism. I have
never been known to refrain from calling a dickhead a dickhead where
this was appropriate
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Date: Thu, 3 MAY 90 16:57:12 GMT
From: SA_RAE@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK
Subject: recent notes on shakespeare
I took a copy of recent notes on 'computed' findings regarding
shakespeare and showed them to a colleague at the Open University, his
comments were as follows:
>>>
It is interesting to note that some of the criteria used are quite
inapplicable to sixteenth and seventeenth century texts: anything to do
with punctuation is much more likely to have been determined by the
compositor than the writer, ditto spelling.
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(As this is my first time to Browns ... I'm glad the move went well and I
look forward to the future with HUMANIST in safe hands.)
Simon Rae, Research Adviser, Academic Computing Services,
The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom.
SA_RAE@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK