'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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... Taylor finds a poem PART I. DONALD FOSTER'S ' SHAKESPEAREAN ' CONSTRUCT page xi xxii xxiv I I. ' W. S. ' and the Elegye for William Peter 2. Parallels ? Plagiarisms ? 3. Vocabulary and diction 4. Grammar : ' the Shakespearean " who " 57 ...
... Taylor finds a poem PART I. DONALD FOSTER'S ' SHAKESPEAREAN ' CONSTRUCT page xi xxii xxiv I I. ' W. S. ' and the Elegye for William Peter 2. Parallels ? Plagiarisms ? 3. Vocabulary and diction 4. Grammar : ' the Shakespearean " who " 57 ...
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... Taylor , who has caused an un- dated , anonymous short lyric , ' Shall I die ? ' , to be included in both the Oxford and Norton Shakespeare editions , and Donald Foster , whose ad- vocacy of Shakespeare's authorship of A Funerall Elegye ...
... Taylor , who has caused an un- dated , anonymous short lyric , ' Shall I die ? ' , to be included in both the Oxford and Norton Shakespeare editions , and Donald Foster , whose ad- vocacy of Shakespeare's authorship of A Funerall Elegye ...
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... Taylor and Foster are , I suggest , ' counterfeits ' of the authentic work . I believe that neither poem has any claim to be included in the canon , and that the arguments by which Taylor and Foster have managed to get them accepted ...
... Taylor and Foster are , I suggest , ' counterfeits ' of the authentic work . I believe that neither poem has any claim to be included in the canon , and that the arguments by which Taylor and Foster have managed to get them accepted ...
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... Taylor's , a sad comment on the way that media attention is only attracted by extreme positions . But a few years later , apparently urged on by Richard Abrams , Foster restated his case in far more intransigent terms , consciously ...
... Taylor's , a sad comment on the way that media attention is only attracted by extreme positions . But a few years later , apparently urged on by Richard Abrams , Foster restated his case in far more intransigent terms , consciously ...
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... Taylor , if on a larger scale : his sample was too small , and he failed to look for contrary evidence . Foster compiled an impressive ' Checklist of English Memorial Verse , 1570-1630 ' , which might have constituted a viable database ...
... Taylor , if on a larger scale : his sample was too small , and he failed to look for contrary evidence . Foster compiled an impressive ' Checklist of English Memorial Verse , 1570-1630 ' , which might have constituted a viable database ...
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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'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare: Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall ... Brian Vickers No preview available - 2009 |
'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare: Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall ... Brian Vickers No preview available - 2002 |
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