Abstract
Abstract The authorship of the anonymous Elizabethan comedy Wily Beguiled could be established with the combined methodologies of the R Stylo program suite on the basis of 110 well-attributed and single-authored reference texts (see Appendix A) and was compared with the findings of the relevant secondary literature using a set of distinctive parameters. The greatest plausibility applied to Rhodes’s and Maxwell’s assumption that an earlier text like that of 1601/02 was reworked by John Marston and Thomas Dekker in the War of the Theatres. Rolling Delta, Rolling Classify, and the General Imposters method were able to find convincing evidence that the earlier text must have been composed by John Lyly who had probably drawn on the early university play Wylie Beguylie (1566/7).
Published Version
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call