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Essay - Literature | Infecting the teller: The failure of a mathematical approach to Shakespeare's authorship, by Brian Vickers - The TLS

Many problems arise from the switch to quantitative textual analysis. It may work with single-authored discursive prose, but it is unsuitable for the complex art-form of Elizabethan drama. Unlike essays, plays are multivocal, they consist entirely of the speeches and interactions of imagined personages, in many different styles...It follows that the words and meanings exchanged in drama are those of the characters, not the authors themselves. To assume that you can identify an authorial style from the nouns, or from function words used by all the speakers in a play, is a massive assumption...

..Returning to the New Oxford Shakespeare map of the canon, those encroaching colours will be permanent stains on the edition, for every attribution is false. Oxford University Press has a proud record as the world’s leading publisher of scholarly editions of English literature. The trust that senior editors placed in Gary Taylor has been repaid with an opportunistic bundle of untested methods set loose on the greatest author in our language.

Shakespeare is not just a national, but an international treasure and it is tragic to contemplate the damage done to culture in general by these editions being used to teach students, and being sold in bookshops to unsuspecting laymen. The Press has just commissioned the New Oxford Marlowe. Among its editors are members of Taylor’s editorial team, and rumour suggests that it will include the Henry VI plays. Many people will fervently hope that on reflection the editors will think it enough to have ruined one major author’s canon.

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Continuing my rewatch of the 2013 season with the spring Talladega race, I thought this driver swap was so fascinating for some reason. They put that hatch on the roof just for this swap. Denny pops out and Brian Vickers is in through the window so fast I had to watch it a couple times to even see how he got in.

#shitty video quality = shitty gif quality oops #nascar #denny hamlin #brian vickers #for anyone who doesn' tknow #hamlin had broken his back earlier in the season during a wreck at auto club #he was cleared to start the race at talladega #so he would be credited with whatever points/finish vickers got when he took over for him #they rigged a lil escape hatch before the race to #make sure it goes as smoothly and quickly as possible #neat stuff!!!!#2013 #talladega #my edit #my gifs #denny

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On the timeless fascination with scandal and lessons from a career covering tabloid news.

I also have had occasion to look at literary scandals. One of my favorites: the so-called Funeral Elegy case, wherein a Vassar professor claimed he had discovered a new (i.e., previously unrecognized) poem by Shakespeare and achieved brief national fame bragging about his brilliance with great humility. I doubted it and wrote columns attacking the attribution. Shakespeare could write on a lesser plane, occasionally badly, but not that bad sustained over six hundred platitudinous lines. The professor stuck to his guns for several years until British professor Brian Vickers, a preeminent Shakespeare scholar, demolished the claim by revealing the name of the person who actually had written it, causing the Vassar professor to write a grudging retraction.