An EconoTimes perspective

Nathan Dooner

PhD Candidate, Languages and Literature, De Montfort University

PhD Candidate, Languages and Literature, De Montfort University Authorship Attribution in Early Modern Drama: A survey of the Shakespeare Apocrypha My interest is in stylometry — the science of measuring writing styles — and it how can be best applied to the diverse field of Early Modern English. My research examines the Shakespeare apocrypha, a group of 17th Century plays published under Shakespeare’s name, but which have historically been regarded as containing little-to-none of his writing. By developing a new suite of stylometry software alongside my studies, my hope is to glean new insight into the authorship of these texts, while creating a set of tools that can be easily circulated to other researchers, or students, who are interested in studying authorship. Research Area Languages and Literature Publications "Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival", Shakespeare, 2023 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450918.2023.2226119 "Principal Component Analysis and Authorship", Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2023 https://academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/llc/fqad054/7295827 "The Old Law Table and Arden of Feversham", Notes and Queries, 2024 https://academic.oup.com/nq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/notesj/gjae106/7758213