Can deductive reasoning lead to solving Shakespeare authorship problems? Joe Sobran writes an interesting exchange between Holmes and Watson as they discuss The Funeral Elegy and Professor Donald Foster’s assertion that his computer analysis reveals the poem was indeed authored by the Bard.
In this intriguing study, Stephanie Caruana examines the use of the expression “em” and “them” in the Shakespeare Canon. She discovers several curious things about the frequency of occurrence of these terms in the works of Shakespeare and makes a few interesting speculations about what they mean for the authorship question.
In this article, Stephanie Caruana provides an update to the controversy over the authorship of A Funeral Elegy, a topic that has several Stratfordians and Oxfordians on the same page! Donald Foster’s assignation of A Funeral Elegy, to Shakespeare casts another cloud over the use (and misuse) of computerized stylometrics to shore up the dying thesis that a rustic grain dealer and theater entrepreneur wrote the works of the Bard.
