On 29–30 September 2017, a conference titled Frontiers in Comparative Metrics III was held at Tallinn University. The first conference in this series was held in 2008 in memory of Mikhail Gasparov, and the second in 2013 in memory of Lucylla Pszczołowska. This year’s conference was dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the eminent Estonian scholar, Jaak Põldmäe, who was the founder of scientific Estonian verse theory. The conference hosted numerous scholars from all over the world, who discussed various aspects of metrics and prosody. The conference was opened by Mihhail Lotman, who gave an overview of the life of Jaak Põldmäe and his importance to Estonian versification studies. Jaak Põldmäe was born in 1942 in Tartu, but deported to Siberia at the age of seven. In 1955 his family was allowed to return to Estonia and Põldmäe started his studies at the University of Tartu, where he became acquainted with the Russian statistical methods for studying versification; yet his academic supervisor, Vyacheslav V. Ivanov, inspired him to work with the axiomatic approach to versification systems. Põldmäe’s monography about Estonian verse is theretofore the most thorough treatment written on this subject. After graduating Põldmäe taught at the University of Tartu until his death in 1979. His works and ideas, however, were often criticised by other scholars of Estonian verse, though admired internationally. Both days of the conference started with keynote lectures. On the first day, Marina Tarlinskaja, of the University of Washington, presented a paper (in cooperation with Darren Freebury-Jones, Cardiff University, and Marcus Dahl, the Institute of English Studies) about determining the authorship of the late Elizabethan-early Jacobean playwright John Marston. As the plays at that time were often written in co-operation, it is difficult to attribute several plays to one or another author. Marina Tarlinskaja, Darren Freebury-Jones and Marcus Dahl have been analysing spelling idiosyncrasies, vocabulary frequency, recurring collocations, and numerous versification features of four texts in John Marston’s canon, where his authorship is not certain: Lust’s Dominion (1600), Histriomastix (1602), The Family of Love (1607), and The Insatiate Countess (1610). They compared the plays with Antonio and Mellida – a play certainly written by Marston – and Thomas Dekker’s The Honest Spanish Soldier. The results showed that Histriomastix (1602) and The Insatiate Countess (1610) Studia Metrica et Poetica 4.2, 2017, 144–152

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比较指标III前沿，2017年9月29日至30日，爱沙尼亚塔林

2017年9月29日至30日，在塔林大学举行了题为“比较度量领域的前沿III”的会议。该系列的第一次会议于2008年举行，以纪念Mikhail Gasparov，第二次会议于2013年举行，以纪念LucyllaPszczołowska。今年的会议是为了纪念爱沙尼亚著名学者JaakPõldmäe诞辰75周年，他是爱沙尼亚科学诗歌理论的创始人。会议吸引了来自世界各地的众多学者，他们讨论了度量和韵律的各个方面。该会议由Mihhail Lotman主持开幕，他概述了JaakPõldmäe的生平以及他对爱沙尼亚的版本化研究的重要性。JaakPõldmäe于1942年出生在塔尔图，但七岁时被驱逐到西伯利亚。1955年，他的家人获准返回爱沙尼亚，普尔迈（Põldmäe）在塔尔图大学开始了他的研究，在那里他熟悉了俄罗斯的统计研究方法。然而，他的学术指导Vyacheslav V. Ivanov却启发了他采用公理化的方法来实现多功能化系统。因此，普尔迈关于爱沙尼亚经文的专着是对此主题最详尽的论述。帕尔迈（Põldmäe）毕业后在塔尔图大学任教，直到1979年去世。然而，他的作品和思想却经常受到爱沙尼亚诗歌的其他学者的批评，尽管在国际上受到赞誉。会议的两天都以主题演讲开始。第一天，华盛顿大学的玛丽娜·塔林斯卡亚（Marina Tarlinskaja）发表了一篇论文（与加的夫大学的达伦·弗里伯里·琼斯合作，以及英国研究学院的马库斯·达尔（Marcus Dahl），负责确定已故伊丽莎白女王时代早期的雅各布戏剧家约翰·马斯顿的作者。由于当时的剧本通常是合作编写的，因此很难将多个剧本归功于一位或另一位作者。玛丽娜·塔林斯卡雅（Marina Tarlinskaja），达伦·弗里伯里·琼斯（Darren Freebury-Jones）和马库斯·达尔（Marcus Dahl）一直在分析约翰·马斯顿（John Marston）教规中四个文本的拼写特质，词汇频率，重复出现的搭配以及众多的经文化特征，这些文本的作者不明确：《色欲》（Lust's Dominion）（1600），《组织学》（Histromastix）（1602） ），《爱的家庭》（The Family of Love）（1607）和《狂躁的伯爵夫人》（Insatiate Countess）（1610）。他们将戏剧与安东尼奥和梅利达（马斯顿肯定写过的戏剧）以及托马斯·德克的《诚实的西班牙士兵》进行了比较。