'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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... editor , Stanley Wells - printed ' Shall I die ? ' in the Oxford Complete Works under the heading ' Various Poems ' , from which it migrated to the Norton edition , which bought in the Oxford text . This episode , besides illustrating ...
... editor , Stanley Wells - printed ' Shall I die ? ' in the Oxford Complete Works under the heading ' Various Poems ' , from which it migrated to the Norton edition , which bought in the Oxford text . This episode , besides illustrating ...
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... editors of the three American college editions will now reconsider whether to include 'Shall I die?' and A Funerall Elegye in future editions. That the two poems got into those editions in the first place shows how the acceptance of ...
... editors of the three American college editions will now reconsider whether to include 'Shall I die?' and A Funerall Elegye in future editions. That the two poems got into those editions in the first place shows how the acceptance of ...
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... editors ) ; and the way they sustained their claims in the face of criticism . As I point out , authorship studies , almost more than other branches of literary criticism , is prone to two tempta- tions . One is the pursuit of scholarly ...
... editors ) ; and the way they sustained their claims in the face of criticism . As I point out , authorship studies , almost more than other branches of literary criticism , is prone to two tempta- tions . One is the pursuit of scholarly ...
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... editor of Review of English Studies asked me to referee an essay entitled ' A Funeral Elegy : Ford , W. S. , and Shakespeare ' . To my great surprise , it proved to be a pithily argued presentation of the case for Ford's authorship ...
... editor of Review of English Studies asked me to referee an essay entitled ' A Funeral Elegy : Ford , W. S. , and Shakespeare ' . To my great surprise , it proved to be a pithily argued presentation of the case for Ford's authorship ...
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... editor , Sarah Stanton , who patiently encouraged the book's various metamorphoses ; Margaret Berrill for her meticulous and constructive copy - editing ; and Clive Liddiard for some last - minute proof correcting . That I have been ...
... editor , Sarah Stanton , who patiently encouraged the book's various metamorphoses ; Margaret Berrill for her meticulous and constructive copy - editing ; and Clive Liddiard for some last - minute proof correcting . That I have been ...
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 |
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