'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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... Oxford and Norton Shakespeare editions , and Donald Foster , whose ad- vocacy of Shakespeare's authorship of A Funerall Elegye in Memory of the late Vertuous Maister William Peeter of Whipton Neere Excester , published in 1612 as the ...
... Oxford and Norton Shakespeare editions , and Donald Foster , whose ad- vocacy of Shakespeare's authorship of A Funerall Elegye in Memory of the late Vertuous Maister William Peeter of Whipton Neere Excester , published in 1612 as the ...
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... Oxford Complete Works under the heading ' Various Poems ' , from which it migrated to the Norton edition , which bought in the Oxford text . This episode , besides illustrating some of the basic principles of authorship studies , also ...
... Oxford Complete Works under the heading ' Various Poems ' , from which it migrated to the Norton edition , which bought in the Oxford text . This episode , besides illustrating some of the basic principles of authorship studies , also ...
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... Oxford , just like John 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 ...
... Oxford , just like John 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 ...
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... Oxford ) , Ward Elliott ( Claremont- McKenna College ) , Gwynne B. Evans ( Harvard University ) , A. Kent Hieatt ( Emeritus , University of Western Ontario ) , Jonathan Hope ( University of Strathclyde ) , MacDonald P. Jackson ...
... Oxford ) , Ward Elliott ( Claremont- McKenna College ) , Gwynne B. Evans ( Harvard University ) , A. Kent Hieatt ( Emeritus , University of Western Ontario ) , Jonathan Hope ( University of Strathclyde ) , MacDonald P. Jackson ...
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... Oxford Book of Children's Stories and The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales . Mr Kennedy became involved in this controversy out of a general in- terest in Shakespeare , and I salute his courage , as a non - academic , in entering an ...
... Oxford Book of Children's Stories and The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales . Mr Kennedy became involved in this controversy out of a general in- terest in Shakespeare , and I salute his courage , as a non - academic , in entering an ...
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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