And then there were none: Winnowing the shakespeare claimants

Language Resources and Evaluation

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 191-245

  Elliott, Ward E Y ^a   Valenza, Robert J ^a  

^a CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Elizabethan plays; Elizabethan poems; Shakespeare Apocrypha; Shakespeare authorship; Shakespeare canon; Stylometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349160003     PISSN: 1574020X     EISSN: 15728412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00055107     Document Type: Article

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