'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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... rhetorical figure , but in claiming to have found seventeen instances of it in the Elegye he showed that he had not understood its function and internal dynamic . Most of those instances are mere noun- doublets , lacking the ...
... rhetorical figure , but in claiming to have found seventeen instances of it in the Elegye he showed that he had not understood its function and internal dynamic . Most of those instances are mere noun- doublets , lacking the ...
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... rhetorical figure hypophora ) with a self - rebuke : ' Silly wretch , forsake these dreams / Of a vaine desire ' , since ' Ladies ' eyes respect no moan / In a mean desert . ' The lady has the conventional Petrarchan attributes , 35 be ...
... rhetorical figure hypophora ) with a self - rebuke : ' Silly wretch , forsake these dreams / Of a vaine desire ' , since ' Ladies ' eyes respect no moan / In a mean desert . ' The lady has the conventional Petrarchan attributes , 35 be ...
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... rhetorical context in which it occurs , all of which allow us to establish the user's intended communicative act . But Taylor ( like Foster ) does not deal with this fundamental point , and it fell to Thomas Pendleton to demonstrate the ...
... rhetorical context in which it occurs , all of which allow us to establish the user's intended communicative act . But Taylor ( like Foster ) does not deal with this fundamental point , and it fell to Thomas Pendleton to demonstrate the ...
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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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