'Only numbers can annihilate.' This book sets out to solve by
statistics the many problems of disputed authorship that surround
the work of Thomas Middleton, one of the greater Jacobean
dramatists. The internal evidence used is all of an objective
nature: 201 items of linguistic evidence have been checked through
a corpus of 132 plays by 35 playwrights contemporary with
Middleton. Extensive tables make it clear at a glance which
features are comparatively rare in the period, and which features
link disputed plays to undoubted work. Strong evidence is provided
for the authorship of 12 plays. Among other things, Dr Lake shows
that there is 99 per cent statistical confidence for the conclusion
that The Puritan and The Revenger's Tragedy were written by
Middleton rather than by anyone else alive in the early seventeenth
century; that, on the other hand, Blurt is by Dekker alone, and The
Spanish Gipsy by Dekker and Ford; and that The Family of Love was
probably revised by the pirate-poet Lording Barry.
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