tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post2119797606064320863..comments2024-03-28T23:22:41.774-05:00Comments on TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Multiple authors of "Shakespearean" works?Minnesotastanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-34159154016715278352013-05-04T06:55:07.734-05:002013-05-04T06:55:07.734-05:00What's the big deal? If some modern writers ca...What's the big deal? If some modern writers can come up with dozens of novels, each of which contain thousands more words than Shakespeare's plays, all of which can be read or performed in less than three hours, and if Charles Dickens, as just one example of old, could write 20 novels, some of which are very long and might take days to read, as well as numerous short stories and poetry, as well as some non-fiction works, then why do these modern scholars come up with these notions that The Bard could not have written his 38 comparatively shortish works? And even the people responsible for the wiki page about him tell us that 11 of these were written in collaboration with others.<br /><br />Re Hamlet, they tell us "Shakespeare based Hamlet on the legend of Amleth, preserved by 13th-century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum as subsequently retold by 16th-century scholar François de Belleforest." So, if this legend was suddenly known to the playwrights of the time, isn't it possible that another playwright wrote a version of it, using the name Hamlet, before Shakespeare wrote his own version also using that name? Filmmakers nowadays commonly do remakes of earlier movies but with new scripts. <br /><br />No one says the new version was made by the maker of the original film, do they? Shakespeare could simply have written his own version of the Hamlet story, knowing that it might be a popular one for which people would buy tickets, and this turned out to be the case.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-56527408935791864352013-05-02T20:53:28.120-05:002013-05-02T20:53:28.120-05:00I thought "computational stylistics", a ...I thought "computational stylistics", a branch of computer science in which a "literary fingerprint" can be determined for an author had been used to show that Shakespeare's plays had most likely been written by single author -at least according to the authors of the book "Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-21410985878221682392013-05-02T16:02:12.360-05:002013-05-02T16:02:12.360-05:00I would love to sit down with Mr Leahy and ask pre...I would love to sit down with Mr Leahy and ask precisely what evidence would suffice to convince him that the plays were written by one Will Shakespeare? Is there any hypothetical, conceivable, imaginable evidence which would be sufficient? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com