Bibliography

Getting started

Readers interested in authorship attribution may understandably find the sheer quantity of scholarship on the subject intimidating. For an engaging introduction to attribution study – its history, principles, and methods – written for the non-specialist reader, the Generals Editors recommend Harold Love's Attributing Authorship: An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002).

For an overview of attribution studies of Shakespeare and early modern drama, see Gabriel Egan's chapter, 'A History of Shakespearean Authorship Attribution', in The New Oxford Shakespeare Authorship Companion, ed. by Gary Taylor and Gabriel Egan (Oxford UP, 2017), pp. 27–47. For a primer in Shakespeare authorship attribution, see Hugh Craig, 'Shakespeare and Authorship Attribution Methodologies', in The Arden Research Companion to Shakespeare and Textual Studies, ed. by Lukas Erne (Arden Shakespeare, 2021), pp. 225–43.

Works Cited

This section supplies bibliographical information for scholarship cited in CADRE entries.

A

• Argamon, Shlomo, 'Interpreting Burrows's Delta: Geometric and Probabilistic Foundations', Literary and Linguistic Computing, 23.2 (2008), 131–47.
• Ashley, Leonard R.N., Authorship and Evidence: A Study of Attribution and the Renaissance Drama Illustrated by the Case of George Peele (1556–1596) (Librairie Droz, 1968).

B

• Burke, Séan, The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida, 3rd edn (Edinburgh UP, 2008).
• Burrows, John, and Hugh Craig, 'Attribution', in The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship, ed. by Ingo Berensmeyer, Gert Buelens, and Marysa Demoor (Cambridge UP, 2019), pp. 325–40.

C

• Craig, Hugh, 'Authorship', in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare, ed. by Arthur F. Kinney (Oxford UP, 2012), pp. 15–30.
• Craig, Hugh, 'Shakespeare's Vocabulary: Myth and Reality', Shakespeare Quarterly, 62.1 (2011), 53–74.
• Craig, Hugh, 'Shakespeare and Authorship Attribution Methodologies', in The Arden Research Companion to Shakespeare and Textual Studies, ed. by Lukas Erne (Arden Shakespeare, 2021), pp. 225–43.
• Craig, Hugh, and Brett Greatley-Hirsch, Style, Computers, and Early Modern Drama: Beyond Authorship (Cambridge UP, 2017).

E

• Egan, Gabriel, 'A History of Shakespearean Authorship Attribution', in The New Oxford Shakespeare Authorship Companion, ed. by Gary Taylor and Gabriel Egan (Oxford UP, 2017), pp. 27–47.
• Eisen, Mark, Alejandro Ribeiro, Santiago Segarra, and Gabriel Egan, 'Stylometric Analysis of Early Modern Period English Plays', Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 33 (2018), 500–28.
• Elliott, Ward E.Y., and Robert J. Valenza, 'Shakespeare's Vocabulary: Did It Dwarf All Others?', in Stylistics and Shakespeare's Language: Transdisciplinary Approaches, ed. by Mireille Ravassat and Jonathan Culpeper (London: Continuum), pp. 34–57.
• Evert, Stefan, Thomas Proisl, Fotis Jannidis, Isabella Reger, Steffen Pielström, Christof Schöch, and others, 'Understanding and Explaining Delta Measures for Authorship Attribution', Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 32.2 (2017), ii4–16.

G

• Greatley-Hirsch, Brett, 'Computational Studies', in The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism, ed. by Evelyn Gajowski (London: Arden Shakespeare, 2020), pp. 205–21.

H

• Hope, Jonathan, The Authorship of Shakespeare's Plays: A Socio-Linguistic Study (Cambridge UP, 1994).
• Hoy, Cyrus, 'The Shares of Fletcher and His Collaborators in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon (I)', Studies in Bibliography, 8 (1956), 129–46.
• Hoy, Cyrus, 'The Shares of Fletcher and His Collaborators in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon (II)', Studies in Bibliography, 9 (1957), 143–62.
• Hoy, Cyrus, 'The Shares of Fletcher and His Collaborators in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon (III)', Studies in Bibliography, 11 (1958), 85–106.
• Hoy, Cyrus, 'The Shares of Fletcher and His Collaborators in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon (IV)', Studies in Bibliography, 12 (1959), 91–116.
• Hoy, Cyrus, 'The Shares of Fletcher and His Collaborators in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon (V)', Studies in Bibliography, 13 (1960), 77–108.
• Hoy, Cyrus, 'The Shares of Fletcher and His Collaborators in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon (VI)', Studies in Bibliography, 14 (1961), 45–67.
• Hoy, Cyrus, 'The Shares of Fletcher and His Collaborators in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon (VII)', Studies in Bibliography, 15 (1962), 71–90.

J

• Jackson, MacDonald P., Determining the Shakespeare Canon: "Arden of Faversham" and "A Lover's Complaint" (Oxford UP, 2014).
• Juola, Patrick, 'Authorship Attribution', Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 1.3 (2006), 233–334.

K

• Kahan, Jeffrey, '"I tell you what mine author says": A Brief History of Stylometrics', ELH, 82.3 (2015), 815–44.

L

• Lake, David J., The Canon of Thomas Middleton's Plays: Internal Evidence for the Major Problems of Authorship (Cambridge UP, 1975).
• Love, Harold, Attributing Authorship: An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002).

O

• Oliphant, E.H.C., The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher: An Attempt to Determine Their Respective Shares and the Shares of Others (Yale UP, 1927).

S

• Schoenbaum, S., Internal Evidence and Elizabethan Dramatic Authorship: An Essay in Literary History and Method (Northwestern UP, 1966).
• Smith, M.W.A., 'The Authorship of "A Lover’s Complaint": An Application of Statistical Stylometry to Poetry', Computers and the Humanities, 18 (1984), 23–37.
• Smith, M.W.A, 'The Authorship of Acts I and II of Pericles: A New Approach Using First Words of Speeches', Computers and the Humanities, 22 (1988), 23–41.
• Smith, M.W.A., 'An Investigation of Morton’s Method to Distinguish Elizabethan Playwrights', Computers and the Humanities, 19 (1985), 3–21.

T

• Taylor, Gary, 'Finding "Anonymous" in the Digital Archives: The Problem of Arden of Faversham', Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 34 (2019), 855–73.

V

• Vickers, Brian, Shakespeare, Co-Author: A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays (Oxford UP, 2002)