'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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... Sonnets STM Temp . TGV The Two Gentlemen of Verona Tim . Timon of Athens Tit . Titus Andronicus TN Twelfth Night TNK The Two Noble Kinsmen Tro . Troilus and Cressida Ven . Venus and Adonis Wiv . The Merry Wives of Windsor WT The ...
... Sonnets STM Temp . TGV The Two Gentlemen of Verona Tim . Timon of Athens Tit . Titus Andronicus TN Twelfth Night TNK The Two Noble Kinsmen Tro . Troilus and Cressida Ven . Venus and Adonis Wiv . The Merry Wives of Windsor WT The ...
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... Sonnet 63 ; John 2.1.505 , 4.2.192 ; Merchant 4.1.270 ; Lear 1.4.284 43 fair brows : ' fair ladies ' brows ' ( Romeo 1.1.230 ) ; ' fair brow ' ( Sonnet 19 ) 44 Star - like : ( Timon 5.1.63 ; Henry VIII 5.4.46 ) 44 eyes : compared to ...
... Sonnet 63 ; John 2.1.505 , 4.2.192 ; Merchant 4.1.270 ; Lear 1.4.284 43 fair brows : ' fair ladies ' brows ' ( Romeo 1.1.230 ) ; ' fair brow ' ( Sonnet 19 ) 44 Star - like : ( Timon 5.1.63 ; Henry VIII 5.4.46 ) 44 eyes : compared to ...
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... Sonnet 130 ; As You 3.5.120 ; Twelfth Night 1.5.247 54 all the world : [ emendation by Taylor of the MS . reading all that's cald ] 56 times in Shakespeare 56 high admirations : ' top of admiration ' ( Tempest 3.1.38 ) 57 bare ( as a ...
... Sonnet 130 ; As You 3.5.120 ; Twelfth Night 1.5.247 54 all the world : [ emendation by Taylor of the MS . reading all that's cald ] 56 times in Shakespeare 56 high admirations : ' top of admiration ' ( Tempest 3.1.38 ) 57 bare ( as a ...
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... Sonnet 43 , which begins with exactly the same dilemma on which ' Shall I die ? ' is constructed : Shall I then silent be or shall I speake ? And if I speake , her wrath renew I shall : and if I silent be , my hart will breake , or ...
... Sonnet 43 , which begins with exactly the same dilemma on which ' Shall I die ? ' is constructed : Shall I then silent be or shall I speake ? And if I speake , her wrath renew I shall : and if I silent be , my hart will breake , or ...
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... sonnet when discussing ' Shall I die ? ' as a Petrarchan poem , below . The faults in Taylor's methodology must now be ... sonnets constitute a large enough database to make com- parison easy . The fact that ' Shall I die ? ' is only 429 ...
... sonnet when discussing ' Shall I die ? ' as a Petrarchan poem , below . The faults in Taylor's methodology must now be ... sonnets constitute a large enough database to make com- parison easy . The fact that ' Shall I die ? ' is only 429 ...
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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