The AI ​​helps shed some light on the author of the famous 400-year-old play

Henry VIII is one of the most famous plays in the history of English literature, written by writers William Shakespeare and John Fletcher in 1623, based on the life of King Henry VIII of England. Besides the great artistic value, the mysteries surrounding the author of Henry VIII are also factors that make this play a topic that has never been 'hot' despite having debuted nearly 400 years ago.

So much time has passed with countless debates and even arguments, it is still not possible to determine how William Shakespeare contributed in this work. There has been an opinion that this legendary playwright was not the author of Henry VIII but merely the "adviser" for John Fletcher. However, with the help of AI, scientists are now able to identify specifically those in Henry VIII written by Shakespeare as well as the segments that his friend, writer John Fletcher undertakes.

The controversy stems from the fact that too many episodes in the play are thought to be inconsistent with Shakespeare's usual writing style, while others oppose the above with evidence that is equally convincing and thinks Shakespeare is the main author of Henry VIII.

To clarify the argument, artificial intelligence engineer Petr Plecháč from the Czech Academy of Sciences has tried the application of machine learning technology to analyze and show the true contribution of Shakespeare and Fletcher in the work. Training data will be the works of both authors. After understanding specific characteristics of each author's style, the AI ​​algorithm will focus on analyzing each word in the whole play to give the most accurate assessment.

Thanks to this, Petr Plecháč was able to determine not only how many plays were written by Shakespeare or Fletcher, but also received the number of scenes written by each of Henry VIII. To increase the level of reliability, Plecháč also brought another writer who is also said to be co-author of Henry VIII: Philip Massinger.

The analysis from AI shows that only Shakespeare and Fletcher are the two real authors of this 400-year-old play, and the fact that William Shakespeare put all his enthusiasm for Henry VIII until his last breath. along, with the help of John Fletcher in some segments.