Shakespeare Statistics

Authorship of Edmund Ironside

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The rolling delta analysis with 152 reference texts used window sizes of 4,000 words, which ran through the entire text with an overlap of 250 words and output the delta value for each window centre, with the lowest delta values indicating stylistic proximity and the highest delta values indicating stylistic distance. After sorting the total delta values of the texts, conditional formatting produced the following overview, which shows the target text with its delta values again in line 3, because the latter are not 0, but have a numerical value derived from the mean delta values, which becomes significant in relation to subordinate texts with their values. The closest Shakespeare plays are mostly from Shakespeare's early work. To make the numerical values easier to read, it's a good idea to temporarily set your browser to 200% in the settings.






The large number of window centroids marked in red points to Shakespeare as the author, but there is also stylistic similarity to Munday's The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington (line 9), Greene's The History of James IV (line 13) and Chettle's The Tragedy of Hoffman (line 15).
27.09.2025