The Canon of Thomas Middleton's Plays: Internal Evidence for the Major Problems of Authorship

by David J. Lake

Book Overview

'Only numbers can annihilate.' This book sets out to solve by statistics the many problems of disputed authorship that surround the work of Thomas Middleton, one of the greater Jacobean dramatists. The internal evidence used is all of an objective nature: 201 items of linguistic evidence have been checked through a corpus of 132 plays by 35 playwrights contemporary with Middleton. Extensive tables make it clear at a glance which features are comparatively...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521134625
• ISBN13: 9780521134620
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"