With profits of the mind

• Autores: David Robson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2965, 2014, págs. 45-49
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Properly controlled statistical analyses have already busted long-standing myths about the Bard. For centuries, scholars had argued that he was fishing from a particularly large word pool compared with his peers. But when Hugh Craig at the University of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia, took into account factors such as the number of plays each writer had produced, he found that Shakespeare's vocabulary is no larger than that of his contemporaries Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson. His overall mix of terms is also no more complex than that of his contemporaries, and his rate of coining new words is unremarkable. Here, Robson examines the essence of Shakespeare's peculiar genius