'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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... noun- doublets , lacking the specifically Shakespearian qualities by which the terms become interfused ( see chapter 6 ) . Foster subjected this linguistic detail , like all the others , to statistical analysis , but literary statistics ...
... noun- doublets , lacking the specifically Shakespearian qualities by which the terms become interfused ( see chapter 6 ) . Foster subjected this linguistic detail , like all the others , to statistical analysis , but literary statistics ...
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... nouns ( possibilited ' , ' nobilitated ' , ' monumented ' , ' conundrumed ' ) . I show that Ford used function ... noun - doublets , resembling but never quite achieving the true hendiadys , is exactly like that of ' W. S. ' , and ...
... nouns ( possibilited ' , ' nobilitated ' , ' monumented ' , ' conundrumed ' ) . I show that Ford used function ... noun - doublets , resembling but never quite achieving the true hendiadys , is exactly like that of ' W. S. ' , and ...
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... Nouns ending in —ness in the Elegye and in Ford's poems and sole - authored plays 340 10.11 The Elliott - Valenza tests of the Elegye 343 10.12 Run - on lines in the Elegye and in Ford's poems 349 10.13 Feminine endings in the Elegye ...
... Nouns ending in —ness in the Elegye and in Ford's poems and sole - authored plays 340 10.11 The Elliott - Valenza tests of the Elegye 343 10.12 Run - on lines in the Elegye and in Ford's poems 349 10.13 Feminine endings in the Elegye ...
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... ( noun ) , desiring ( noun ) , speck , scanty and contenting ( noun ) ' – and that Shakespeare ' coins more new words than any poet of the period ' . Both points may be true , but they in no way allow the deduction that ' these neologisms ...
... ( noun ) , desiring ( noun ) , speck , scanty and contenting ( noun ) ' – and that Shakespeare ' coins more new words than any poet of the period ' . Both points may be true , but they in no way allow the deduction that ' these neologisms ...
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... noun , meaning ' fairness , beauty ' ) : eleven times in Shake- speare 41-2 forehead fair ... and high : ' high forehead ' ( Romeo 2.1.18 , in a catalogue of a woman's features ) ; ' fair forehead ' ( Hamlet 3.4.43 ) 42 without wrinkle ...
... noun , meaning ' fairness , beauty ' ) : eleven times in Shake- speare 41-2 forehead fair ... and high : ' high forehead ' ( Romeo 2.1.18 , in a catalogue of a woman's features ) ; ' fair forehead ' ( Hamlet 3.4.43 ) 42 without wrinkle ...
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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