Carme Llorca Bofi, BA English Literature

'To Shakespeare or not to Shakespeare' Authorship and Computational Methods

Did Shakespeare write his works? Was William Shakespearea brand name? Collaboration, anonymity and well-featured authorship are phenomena that continue to generate debate among readers and investigators. The necessity to find more accurate methods and truly know the actual writer of each piece of work is crucial to understand and provide worthy critical literary study. Based on the recently published work 'The New Oxford Shakespeare: Authorship Companion' I am doing my Final Year Projeton computational linguistics. That is why I would like to share with all young researchers the amazing tools and possibilities that computing has to offer to the Humanities.