'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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... beginning un― , or ending with -ful and -less ; very as a restric- tive adjective ; a preference for whiles rather than while ; the use of such old - fashioned forms as wert , hath , doth , and so forth - Ford's diction is actually ...
... beginning un― , or ending with -ful and -less ; very as a restric- tive adjective ; a preference for whiles rather than while ; the use of such old - fashioned forms as wert , hath , doth , and so forth - Ford's diction is actually ...
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... beginning lines in A Funerall Elegye 240 10.1 ' Shakespearian ' diction in the Elegye and in 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 ...
... beginning lines in A Funerall Elegye 240 10.1 ' Shakespearian ' diction in the Elegye and in 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 ...
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... beginning like this : Shall I die ? Shall I fly Lovers ' baits and deceits , sorrow breeding ? Shall I tend ? Shall I send ? Shall I sue , and not rue my proceeding ? In all duty her beauty Binds me her servant for ever . If she scorn ...
... beginning like this : Shall I die ? Shall I fly Lovers ' baits and deceits , sorrow breeding ? Shall I tend ? Shall I send ? Shall I sue , and not rue my proceeding ? In all duty her beauty Binds me her servant for ever . If she scorn ...
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... beginning abab , then permutat- ing bcbcdd , bcdcdd , etc . ) . 14 David Norbrook and Henry Woudhuysen , in their ground - breaking anthology of English Renaissance poetry , include an ' Index of Metrical and Stanzaic Forms ' , in which ...
... beginning abab , then permutat- ing bcbcdd , bcdcdd , etc . ) . 14 David Norbrook and Henry Woudhuysen , in their ground - breaking anthology of English Renaissance poetry , include an ' Index of Metrical and Stanzaic Forms ' , in which ...
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... 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 Taylor's pseudo - Shakespearian poem which will help us define ...
... 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 Taylor's pseudo - Shakespearian poem which will help us define ...
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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