“I tell you what mine author says”: A Brief History of Stylometrics
Jeffrey Kahan · ELH · 2015
It’s been over 230 years since William Richardson first dreamed of identifying Shakespeare scientifically. Since then, we’ve had countless counters, new methods, and endless errors. Cardenio and other hitherto Apocryphal plays may be in part or in full by Shakespeare, but this essay argues that any reliance on mathematics concerning such questions should be deeply sounded.