Using the plagiarism software, Vickers has also attributed four more anonymous plays to Kyd. Simply because, as literature scholars have documented, the London theaters of the day were competing for audiences and had to churn out material as quickly as possible to stay ahead of one another. To do so, they often used groups of authors to write playbooks in a matter of weeks, paying each author by the scene. The theater companies would then often advertise themselves, rather than the authors, on the published playbooks.
Vickers and his colleagues hope that by using plagiarism software, which they're currently applying to a study of British playwright John Ford's works, scholars may yet be able to settle many of the literature world's greatest authorship questions.
Vickers has spent more than four decades studying Shakespeare, and he's devoted countless hours over the past two years reaching his verdict on Edward III. If you distrust computers, you won't advance at all; if you have just computers and know nothing about literature, you're likely to go wrong as well. While Vickers says his research proves the co-authorship of Edward III beyond a doubt, he's yet to convince all of his fellow Shakespeare experts.
Thank you to our subscribers for sustaining local news in Maine! I support local news. The BDN has served Maine for over years. Skip to content. Plagiarism software isn't new; college professors have been using it to catch cheats for more than a decade.
It is, however, growing increasingly sophisticated, enabling a scholar like Vickers to investigate the provenance of unattributed works of literature. With a program called Pl giarism, Vickers detected strings of three or more words in Edward III that matched phrases in Shakespeare's other works.
Usually, works by two different authors will only have about 20 matching strings. See the top 10 imposters. Among Shakespeare's recycled bits of phrases: "come in person hither," "pale queene of night," "thou art thy selfe," "author of my blood" and even the whole phrase "lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
The professor also matched more than strings of words between Edward III and Kyd's earlier works — at this point in his career, he had only three plays to his name.
Using the plagiarism software, Vickers has also attributed four more anonymous plays to Kyd. Simply because, as literature scholars have documented, the London theaters of the day were competing for audiences and had to churn out material as quickly as possible to stay ahead of one another.
To do so, they often used groups of authors to write playbooks in a matter of weeks, paying each author by the scene. The theater companies would then often advertise themselves, rather than the authors, on the published playbooks.
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