  Research into the stylistic properties of translations is an issue which has
received some attention in computational stylistics. Previous work by Rybicki
(2006) on the distinguishing of character idiolects in the work of Polish
author Henryk Sienkiewicz and two corresponding English translations using
Burrow's Delta method concluded that idiolectal differences could be observed
in the source texts and this variation was preserved to a large degree in both
translations. This study also found that the two translations were also highly
distinguishable from one another. Burrows (2002) examined English translations
of Juvenal also using the Delta method, results of this work suggest that some
translators are more adept at concealing their own style when translating the
works of another author whereas other authors tend to imprint their own style
to a greater extent on the work they translate. Our work examines the writing
of a single author, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and these writings
translated into both German and English from Norwegian, in an attempt to
investigate the preservation of characterization, defined here as the
distinctiveness of textual contributions of characters.
