'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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... Verse , 1570-1630 ' , which might have constituted a viable database , but his comparative analyses were based on a much smaller ' Cross - Sample ' of elegies published between 1610 and 1613 , to- talling forty poems of varying lengths ...
... Verse , 1570-1630 ' , which might have constituted a viable database , but his comparative analyses were based on a much smaller ' Cross - Sample ' of elegies published between 1610 and 1613 , to- talling forty poems of varying lengths ...
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... verses having an extra or hypermetric syl- lable ( so - called ' feminine endings ' ) , he no longer cited the late ... verse - style at the end of his career ( see chapter 5 ) . All these , and other failings , are documented in the ...
... verses having an extra or hypermetric syl- lable ( so - called ' feminine endings ' ) , he no longer cited the late ... verse - style at the end of his career ( see chapter 5 ) . All these , and other failings , are documented in the ...
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... verse lines begin with low - content function - words ( of , as , which , in ) , or with gerunds , an uninventive formulaic style quite unlike Shakespeare's . It uses many pleonasms , especially in order to provide rhyming words ; its ...
... verse lines begin with low - content function - words ( of , as , which , in ) , or with gerunds , an uninventive formulaic style quite unlike Shakespeare's . It uses many pleonasms , especially in order to provide rhyming words ; its ...
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... verse lines with gerunds ; both liked syntactical construc- tions of the kind If ... then . Ford's verse - style in his poems ( 1606 , 1613 ) was very similar to that of the Elegye ( 1612 ) , showing comparable frequencies in the use of ...
... verse lines with gerunds ; both liked syntactical construc- tions of the kind If ... then . Ford's verse - style in his poems ( 1606 , 1613 ) was very similar to that of the Elegye ( 1612 ) , showing comparable frequencies in the use of ...
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... verse line 5.4 Pause patterns in the Funerall Elegye 5.5 Pause patterns in the Elegye and in Shakespeare : raw figures 5.6 Pause patterns in the Elegye and in Shakespeare : percentages 5.7 Proclitic and enclitic phrases in Shakespeare ...
... verse line 5.4 Pause patterns in the Funerall Elegye 5.5 Pause patterns in the Elegye and in Shakespeare : raw figures 5.6 Pause patterns in the Elegye and in Shakespeare : percentages 5.7 Proclitic and enclitic phrases in Shakespeare ...
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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