ABSTRACT
William Shakespeare studies enter cognitive gridlock over computer-based criticism, that is, stylometry. Principal components analysis has joined the statistical discrimination methods used for attributing the Federalist Papers, and recently Matthews and Merriam introduced neural networks as stylometric pattern-recognition tools for plays potentially collaborated on by Shakespeare and Fletcher. Once available, the Shakespeare Database CD-ROM will be a huge resource for Shakespeare stylometric research. The Arden Shakespeare CD-ROM: Texts and Resources for Shakespeare Studies offers computing Shakespeareans not only Arden 2, but a fine collection of reference works. The Arden CD-ROM publishers have accordingly set up a public home for the Arden Shakespeare on-line. Nicholas Kind has produced, and Thomas Nelson and Sons published, a free Internet service titled ArdenNet. Michael Best's Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE) exists 'to make scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays available in a form native to the medium of the Internet'.
