'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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... words and phrases in the poem for which he cited parallels in Shakespeare , but he made at least three major errors : he failed to check the claimed parallels against the work of other poets working between 1590 and 1620 , and so never ...
... words and phrases in the poem for which he cited parallels in Shakespeare , but he made at least three major errors : he failed to check the claimed parallels against the work of other poets working between 1590 and 1620 , and so never ...
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... words in Shakespeare's vocabulary ( and , but , not , so , that , to , with , by , in ) , but only subjected the first four to statistical analysis , which produced a favourable correlation between the Elegye and Shakespeare . He did ...
... words in Shakespeare's vocabulary ( and , but , not , so , that , to , with , by , in ) , but only subjected the first four to statistical analysis , which produced a favourable correlation between the Elegye and Shakespeare . He did ...
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... words ; its syntactical inversions are clumsy , often for the sake of the rhyme ; and its rhetoric is dysfunctional ... word ' steady ' , is Stoicism , a philosophy which celebrated the virtue of constantia . Ford contributed ...
... words ; its syntactical inversions are clumsy , often for the sake of the rhyme ; and its rhetoric is dysfunctional ... word ' steady ' , is Stoicism , a philosophy which celebrated the virtue of constantia . Ford contributed ...
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... words beginning un― , or ending with -ful and -less ; very as a restric- tive adjective ; a preference for whiles rather than while ; the use of such old - fashioned forms as wert , hath , doth , and so forth - Ford's diction is ...
... words beginning un― , or ending with -ful and -less ; very as a restric- tive adjective ; a preference for whiles rather than while ; the use of such old - fashioned forms as wert , hath , doth , and so forth - Ford's diction is ...
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... word choices in the Elegye 8.1 Latinate words in the Elegye and in late Shakespeare 8.2 Polysyllabic words in the Elegye and in late Shakespeare 8.3 Pleonastic do forms in the Elegye page 117 153 154 155 156 157 157 161 162 202 230 231 ...
... word choices in the Elegye 8.1 Latinate words in the Elegye and in late Shakespeare 8.2 Polysyllabic words in the Elegye and in late Shakespeare 8.3 Pleonastic do forms in the Elegye page 117 153 154 155 156 157 157 161 162 202 230 231 ...
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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