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34 - Language: Key to Authorship

from Part III - Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Ward E. Y. Elliott
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 233 - 240
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Elliott, Ward E. Y., and Valenza, Robert J.. “Two Tough Nuts to Crack: Did Shakespeare Write the ‘Shakespeare’ Portions of Sir Thomas More and Edward III?” Literary and Linguistic Computing 25 (2010): 67–83, 165–77. http://www.cmc.edu/pages/faculty/welliott/UTConference/2ToughNuts.pdf.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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