Another Shakespeare play?

[catsmate]

Well it seems that the Shakespearen canon will be extended to include Edward III.....

Dramatic new evidence concludes that the play Edward III should be added to William Shakespeare’s canon, and also that it was a major collaboration with his contemporary rival Christopher Marlowe.

The history was published anonymously in 1596, and it has long been thought that Shakespeare wrote at least a few scenes. However, Dr Rory Loughnane, a leading scholar and co-author of the research, told the Guardian that computerised textual analysis pushed the case “beyond any reasonable doubt” that the Stratford-born playwright was the principal writer.

Scholars conclude ‘beyond doubt’ that Shakespeare was main author of Edward III

Exclusive: Play anonymously published in 1596 was collaboration between Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, according to computer analysis

www.theguardian.com

 

[Helen]

That makes me want to write fan fiction about Will and Chris...

 

[theprestige]

Computer analysis, yes?

Very well. Show us the algorithms. Show us the metrics. Show us how you measured the data. Show us the data points, and how they measured up to the metric.

I'm sorry, but now we're in the era of "everyone uses AI carelessly and ignorantly and very often without transparency", any new computer-aided discovery is immediately and irrevocably suspect to me. If your abstract doesn't include a detailed explanation of how you avoided AI hallucinations or AI prompt-satisfying behavior, I'm going to assume your findings are largely clanker slop.

I don't think it's a coincidence that one of the researchers was already promoting this theory in 2016, and now, ten years on, after the advent of casual AI for the masses, their "computer analysis" says they were right all along. So show us the algorithms. It's a computer analysis, so replicating it should be as trivial as downloading the data and the code, and pressing a button.

I also don't think it's a coincidence that the Guardian tells us a lot about the analysis, but does not actually name a single algorithm, program, or analytical methodology used to obtain this result.

 

[TragicMonkey]

According to my calculations, Shakespeare also wrote 31% of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark.

 

[EHocking]

Well it seems that the Shakespearen canon will be extended to include Edward III.....

Scholars conclude ‘beyond doubt’ that Shakespeare was main author of Edward III

Exclusive: Play anonymously published in 1596 was collaboration between Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, according to computer analysis

www.theguardian.com

I wonder which hallucinating AI tool was used achieve the result the author was looking for.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

According to my calculations, Shakespeare also wrote 31% of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark.

I thought the musical number at the end had his touch.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

In fairness it's about time he released something new, his agent must be getting desperate.