Abstract:

Developments in computational analysis, corpus construction, and text editing have opened exciting new areas of inquiry in comedia studies. The first two decades of the twenty-first century have seen a swell of stylometric studies dedicated to comedias of unknown or disputed authorship. This essay gives an account of stylometry, or the quantitative analysis of textual evidence, and appraises it in plain, nontechnical language. Taking the perspective most germane to comedia studies, the article reviews stylometry's place in authorship studies; considers the mechanics of performing it and some of the tests and methods employed; provides a brief history of stylometry in the early modern Spanish theater context; comments on the preparation of adequate texts and corpora; and offers conclusions about the overall implications of this mode of analysis.

 抽象的：

计算分析、语料库构建和文本编辑的发展为喜剧研究开辟了令人兴奋的新领域。二十一世纪的前二十年，针对作者身份不明或有争议的喜剧的风格测量研究激增。本文介绍了文体计量学，即文本证据的定量分析，并用简单的、非技术性的语言对其进行了评价。本文从与喜剧研究最密切相关的角度，回顾了文体计量学在作者身份研究中的地位。考虑执行它的机制以及所采用的一些测试和方法；提供了早期现代西班牙戏剧背景下风格测量学的简史；对准备充足的文本和语料库的评论；并提供有关这种分析模式的总体影响的结论。