'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare: Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall ElegyeCambridge University Press, 19.09.2002 - 568 Seiten '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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... claim to be included in the canon , and that the arguments by which Taylor and Foster have managed to get them accepted fail to meet correct procedures in authorship studies . The Prologue , ' Gary Taylor Finds a Poem ' , besides ...
... claim to be included in the canon , and that the arguments by which Taylor and Foster have managed to get them accepted fail to meet correct procedures in authorship studies . The Prologue , ' Gary Taylor Finds a Poem ' , besides ...
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... claim excited less inter- est than Taylor's , a sad comment on the way that media attention is only attracted by extreme positions . But a few years later , apparently urged on by Richard Abrams , Foster restated his case in far more ...
... claim excited less inter- est than Taylor's , a sad comment on the way that media attention is only attracted by extreme positions . But a few years later , apparently urged on by Richard Abrams , Foster restated his case in far more ...
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... claims he made , having identified linguistic habits shared by ' W. S. ' and Shakespeare . It was not just the sample ... claim . He made a special point about the nine most frequently recurring words in Shakespeare's vocabulary ( and ...
... claims he made , having identified linguistic habits shared by ' W. S. ' and Shakespeare . It was not just the sample ... claim . He made a special point about the nine most frequently recurring words in Shakespeare's vocabulary ( and ...
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... claim . The public , led by journalists keen on a story , may have been ' generous and enthusiastic ' , but scholars who have spent many years working on Shakespeare and Elizabethan literature have been uniformly dismissive . To them it ...
... claim . The public , led by journalists keen on a story , may have been ' generous and enthusiastic ' , but scholars who have spent many years working on Shakespeare and Elizabethan literature have been uniformly dismissive . To them it ...
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... claim to be considered reliable external evidence . Gary Taylor , however , at his first interviews with journalists ... claims to be “ complete ” ( Taylor 1985a , p . 14 ) . The best answer to such absolute assertiveness is to recall ...
... claim to be considered reliable external evidence . Gary Taylor , however , at his first interviews with journalists ... claims to be “ complete ” ( Taylor 1985a , p . 14 ) . The best answer to such absolute assertiveness is to recall ...
Inhalt
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PART I Donald Fosters Shakespearean construct | 55 |
PART II John Fords Funerall Elegye | 261 |
Appendices | 467 |
Notes | 509 |
554 | |
563 | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abrams abstract ascription attribution authorship studies Brian Vickers canon Christes Bloodie Sweat cited critics Cyrus Hoy death Dekker described diction discussion Donald Foster doth dramatist edition editors Elegy Elegye's Elizabethan Elliott and Valenza English essay evidence fair Fames Memoriall figure Ford's plays Ford's poems Foster claimed frequently Funeral Elegy Funerall Elegye Golden Meane hendiadys Henry instances John Ford Laws of Candy linguistic literary Love's Sacrifice Lover's Melancholy mind modern Monsarrat Mountjoy never Noble noun occurs opinion Oxford passage percent Perkin Warbeck phrase poem's poet poet's poetry praise prose published punctuation readers recurs refer Renaissance rhetoric rhyme Richard sample scenes scholars sequence Shakespeare's authorship Sonnets stanza statistics style stylistic Sun's Darling syntactical syntax Taylor tests thee Thomas thou tion usage verb verse line Vickers virtue vocabulary William Peter William Shakespeare Witch of Edmonton words writing wrote youth