'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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... examples of two syllables missing : x / \ x / x Binds | me her ser | vant forever ( 6 ) \ x / \ x / x She's beauty's queen | in election ( 64 ) If the dual demands of rhyme and metre forced the poet to leave many verse feet simply ...
... examples of two syllables missing : x / \ x / x Binds | me her ser | vant forever ( 6 ) \ x / \ x / x She's beauty's queen | in election ( 64 ) If the dual demands of rhyme and metre forced the poet to leave many verse feet simply ...
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... example of Spenser ... suggests that any such search is likely to be fruitless . ( 1985a , pp . 12–13 ; 1985b , p . 1447 ) On the basis of only a few weeks ' research , as he himself recorded , Taylor in effect challenged scholars to ...
... example of Spenser ... suggests that any such search is likely to be fruitless . ( 1985a , pp . 12–13 ; 1985b , p . 1447 ) On the basis of only a few weeks ' research , as he himself recorded , Taylor in effect challenged scholars to ...
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... examples occur , as does this one , in the midst of a catalogue of physical attractions . ( Spenser , by contrast , although he refers to lips fifty- three times , never calls them ' red ' . ) Even the clichés of the poem are clichés ...
... examples occur , as does this one , in the midst of a catalogue of physical attractions . ( Spenser , by contrast , although he refers to lips fifty- three times , never calls them ' red ' . ) Even the clichés of the poem are clichés ...
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... examples of non - Shakespearian usage Giroux cited ' bad rhymes like " breeding / deceiving " in stanza two ; . . . the repetition of " sweets / meets " and " meet / sweet " in stanzas seven and eight ; the repetition of " not / blot ...
... examples of non - Shakespearian usage Giroux cited ' bad rhymes like " breeding / deceiving " in stanza two ; . . . the repetition of " sweets / meets " and " meet / sweet " in stanzas seven and eight ; the repetition of " not / blot ...
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... example of what has been called " " enumerative induc- tivism " - the naïve quest for confirming instances of one's ... examples of Renaissance lyrics - they are all lute- songs , in fact - beginning with a lover posing a question in ...
... example of what has been called " " enumerative induc- tivism " - the naïve quest for confirming instances of one's ... examples of Renaissance lyrics - they are all lute- songs , in fact - beginning with a lover posing a question in ...
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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