book review by Ramon Jiménez
Posted as an article on the SOF website under the title “Shakespeare by the Numbers: What Stylometrics Can and Cannot Tell Us.” To read this review article, click here.
Hugh Craig and Arthur F. Kinney, eds., Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship (Cambridge University Press, 2009). This review was originally published in slightly different form, “How Reliable Is Stylometrics? Two Orthodox Scholars Investigate,” in the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter, v. 47, no. 1 (Jan. 2011), pp. 11–16; republished as “Stylometrics: How Reliable Is It Really?” in Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? (Shahan & Waugh eds. 2013), app. B, pp. 228–36; republished on the SOF website, Dec. 24, 2019; and updated and cross-posted under “reviews,” Aug. 4, 2020.
See also this overview of the broader issue of stylometric analysis of literary works.
