'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare: Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall Elegye'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare addresses the fundamental issue of what Shakespeare actually wrote, and how this is determined. In recent years his authorship has been claimed for two poems, the lyric 'Shall I die?' and A Funerall Elegye. These attributions have been accepted into certain major editions of Shakespeare's works but Brian Vickers argues that both attributions rest on superficial verbal parallels; both use too small a sample, ignore negative evidence, and violate basic principles in authorship studies. Through a fresh examination of the evidence, Professor Vickers shows that neither poem has the stylistic and imaginative qualities we associate with Shakespeare. In other words, they are 'counterfeits', in the sense of anonymously authored works wrongly presented as Shakespeare's. He argues that the poet and dramatist John Ford wrote the Elegye: its poetical language (vocabulary, syntax, prosody) is indistinguishable from Ford's, and it contains several hundred close parallels with his work. By combining linguistic and statistical analysis this book makes an important contribution to authorship studies. |
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... Ford and Ford's cousin William . William Peter and William Ford were at Exeter together from 1601 to 1608 , sharing the same tutor , and although John Ford left Oxford in 1602 , he must have known Peter well . The two families even ...
... Ford and Ford's cousin William . William Peter and William Ford were at Exeter together from 1601 to 1608 , sharing the same tutor , and although John Ford left Oxford in 1602 , he must have known Peter well . The two families even ...
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Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall Elegye Brian Vickers. duress . Ford's competence in this vein would have assured him a firm place in the Christian - classical moralizing tradition , had he not decided in about 1619 to ...
Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall Elegye Brian Vickers. duress . Ford's competence in this vein would have assured him a firm place in the Christian - classical moralizing tradition , had he not decided in about 1619 to ...
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... Ford's poems, prose works, and plays, I hope to provide the final, clinching evidence that the Elegye was written by Ford. Some open-minded readers may object that I could have presented the evidence for Ford's authorship more briefly ...
... Ford's poems, prose works, and plays, I hope to provide the final, clinching evidence that the Elegye was written by Ford. Some open-minded readers may object that I could have presented the evidence for Ford's authorship more briefly ...
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... Ford I decided to consult Ward Elliott and Robert J. Valenza , co - authors of several impor- tant statistical studies of the Shakespeare authorship problem . I supplied them with electronic texts of Ford's two major poems , which they ...
... Ford I decided to consult Ward Elliott and Robert J. Valenza , co - authors of several impor- tant statistical studies of the Shakespeare authorship problem . I supplied them with electronic texts of Ford's two major poems , which they ...
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... Ford IO.I 10.2 Adjectival suffixes in Ford 306 307 10.3 Compound words in Ford's poems 308 10.4 Verb forms in seven plays by Ford 313 10.5 Distinctive vocabulary : W. S. ' , Shakespeare , and Ford 10.6 Words in A Funerall Elegye not ...
... Ford IO.I 10.2 Adjectival suffixes in Ford 306 307 10.3 Compound words in Ford's poems 308 10.4 Verb forms in seven plays by Ford 313 10.5 Distinctive vocabulary : W. S. ' , Shakespeare , and Ford 10.6 Words in A Funerall Elegye not ...
Contents
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PART I Donald Fosters Shakespearean construct | 55 |
PART II John Fords Funerall Elegye | 261 |
Appendices | 467 |
Notes | 509 |
Bibliography | 554 |
Index | 563 |
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