'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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... Renaissance Studies at the Eidgenössische Tech- nische Hochschule , Zürich . He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy . His publications on Shakespeare include The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose ( 1968 , 1979 ) ; a six ...
... Renaissance Studies at the Eidgenössische Tech- nische Hochschule , Zürich . He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy . His publications on Shakespeare include The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose ( 1968 , 1979 ) ; a six ...
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... Renaissance English Madrigal Verse : see Fellowes et al . , 1967 English Studies Jacobean and Caroline Stage : see Bentley 1941–68 Literary and Linguistic Computing Modern Language Review The Nondramatic Works of John Ford : see Stock ...
... Renaissance English Madrigal Verse : see Fellowes et al . , 1967 English Studies Jacobean and Caroline Stage : see Bentley 1941–68 Literary and Linguistic Computing Modern Language Review The Nondramatic Works of John Ford : see Stock ...
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... Renaissance poetry is in its infancy , with a few honourable exceptions . William Ringler , in his excellent edition of Sidney's poetry , listed all the verse forms that Sidney used , from which we can see that the poet pre- ferred ...
... Renaissance poetry is in its infancy , with a few honourable exceptions . William Ringler , in his excellent edition of Sidney's poetry , listed all the verse forms that Sidney used , from which we can see that the poet pre- ferred ...
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... Renaissance literature who are encountering his claims for the first time may be surprised by Taylor's list of words and phrases that supposedly link this poem indissolubly to the Shakespeare canon . ( In the following selection I have ...
... Renaissance literature who are encountering his claims for the first time may be surprised by Taylor's list of words and phrases that supposedly link this poem indissolubly to the Shakespeare canon . ( In the following selection I have ...
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... Renaissance lyrics - they are all lute- songs , in fact - beginning with a lover posing a question in the form ' Shall I ... ? ' . Sheen merely cited their first lines , but if we read them fully we will find several likenesses to ...
... Renaissance lyrics - they are all lute- songs , in fact - beginning with a lover posing a question in the form ' Shall I ... ? ' . Sheen merely cited their first lines , but if we read them fully we will find several likenesses to ...
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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