Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Not single spies but in battalions

The tally of all named deaths is complete.  We counted approximately 150 characters who either die on stage, or whose death is reported during the course of the play.

In a related note, some British professor has used plagiarism-detecting software to determine that "Edward III" was, in fact, about 40% written by Shakespeare, with the other 60% most likely Thomas Kyd (article).  I still say it stinks.

2 comments:

  1. Maybe the characters in that one could only end up 40% dead?

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  2. Of Edward III stinks. Only 40% is Shakespeare. YOUR play, on the other hand ...

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