Posted on 02/18/2018 12:09:16 PM PST by onedoug
For years scholars have debated what inspired William Shakespeare’s writings. Now, with the help of software typically used by professors to nab cheating students, two writers have discovered an unpublished manuscript they believe the Bard of Avon consulted to write “King Lear,” “Macbeth,” “Richard III,” “Henry V” and seven other plays. The news has caused Shakespeareans to sit up and take notice.
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Of interest ping....
OH goody. Another self taught expert using a computer to “prove” his thesis
What is the manuscript?
There have been hundreds, even thousands, of books arguing that Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare.
But he did.
Plagiarism Software = Joe Biden’s Worst Nightmare
Sort of like when our founding fathers used Vattel’s “The Law of Nations” to form our laws and POTUS eligibility using the term “natural born citizen.” Sure, software may be accepted for colleges and the theater but they’d be too scared to use it for a constitutional crisis.
how do we not know if theses authors were not the ones who plagiarized Shakespeare
Interesting...the software is open source too. Maybe we could use against our bloggers here on FR.
I lack to ability write anything original.
I am plagued by something called eidetic memory.
If I read a book or article, it is stored in my head forever. The problem lies in that in attempting to write something original, I cannot tell what is mine from what I read 15 or 20 years ago. So, I can never publish anything, no matter how inspired. I once started writing a novel, only to discover that whole chapters were word for word from a sci-fi novel I read 50 years ago.
Having an eidetic memory does have its benefits though. I can read an engineering textbook and take a quiz tomorrow and ace it every time.
Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare. It was another guy with the same name...
You should check the nets to be sure no one wrote that before:)
Doris! Doris Kearns Goodwin, it’s you!
The easiest way to tell would be to look at the time/date stamps on Shakespeare’s PDF files and compare them to the other guys’ PDF files. Oh, wait...
Did Shakespeare use a typewriter equipped with MS Word fonts? That would be a sign they’re fake but accurate.
And he made his money from putting on performances, not "intellectual property" (a concept that did not exist).
This is not new stuff.
I once had a room mate with an eidetic memory. It was really annoying, like Sheldon in Big Bang Theory. He would bring up a conversation from months earlier, and tell me why I was wrong today.
On the other hand, he was a really nice guy and a computer whiz, since obviously he remembered everything he ever learned.
Then it turned out that he grew up with Roseanne Arquette and family, and was invited to the wedding when David Arquette married Courtney Cox.
Has the nyt run 0bama’s books through the system against, oh say, Bill Errs’ other works?
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