Corneille nell’ombra di Molière. Come identificare un autore?

Abstract

There is much evidence showing that Moliere did not write his plays. In France, during the 17th century, comedies were presented by comedians – like Molière – and not by the authors who wrote them. Molière did not behave as an author and none, among his contemporaries, considered him a writer. In contrast, many claimed that Corneille wrote some of these plays. Those claims are confirmed by several statistical indices: intertextual distance, classifications, combinations of common words, meanings of keywords, sentence length.