Shakespeare's Errant Texts: Textual Form and Linguistic Style in Shakespearean 'Bad' Quartos and Co-authored Plays

摘要

As A book which, through text corpora and computer-assisted quantitative methods of enquiry, attempts to answer some of the more substantial questions relating to Shakespeare's extant canon — to what extent are his texts the product of various forms of collaboration, and, in terms of the methodologies we might use, how best (or, perhaps, better) might we go about identifying and measuring this extent — Lene B. Petersen's study, Shakespeare's Errant Texts, competently offers an important model by which we might undertake future investigations into Shakespearean authorship and the editing of his plays.