The Conquest of Jerusalem: by Cervantes? Stylometric analysis on authorship in the Golden Age Spanish theater

In this article we apply stylometric methods to approach the authorship problem of the comedy La conquista de Jerusalén, attributed since its discovery to Miguel de Cervantes. For this purpose we have performed numerous analyses with different range of most frequent words in a total of seventeen theater plays, all of them written by the seven authors that define the generación teatral de 1580 and who wrote plays actively when La conquista was composed. We have used the distant measure Delta to cluster the text.