'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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... death of Sir Thomas Overbury ; another on the death of Ben Jonson ; and yet another ( discov- ered by the late Jeremy Maule ) on the death of John Fletcher . In fact , nearly all of Ford's verse consists of memorial poems , which ...
... death of Sir Thomas Overbury ; another on the death of Ben Jonson ; and yet another ( discov- ered by the late Jeremy Maule ) on the death of John Fletcher . In fact , nearly all of Ford's verse consists of memorial poems , which ...
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... death ? ' ( p . 4 ) . Thomas A. Pendleton , in his letter , addressed the poem's diction , citing six instances of its use of language for which no parallel could be found in the 100,000 lines of Prologue . Gary Taylor finds a poem 23.
... death ? ' ( p . 4 ) . Thomas A. Pendleton , in his letter , addressed the poem's diction , citing six instances of its use of language for which no parallel could be found in the 100,000 lines of Prologue . Gary Taylor finds a poem 23.
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... death . ( p . 324 ) That desperate conclusion is typical of so many poems in the Petrarchan idiom , such as Wyatt's rebuke of his mistress , ' Since you will needs that I shall sing ' , itemizing his ' Plenty of plaint , moan and ...
... death . ( p . 324 ) That desperate conclusion is typical of so many poems in the Petrarchan idiom , such as Wyatt's rebuke of his mistress , ' Since you will needs that I shall sing ' , itemizing his ' Plenty of plaint , moan and ...
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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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