'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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... Complete Works under the heading ' Various Poems ' , from which it migrated to the Norton edition , which bought in the Oxford text . This episode , besides illustrating some of the basic principles of authorship studies , also brings ...
... Complete Works under the heading ' Various Poems ' , from which it migrated to the Norton edition , which bought in the Oxford text . This episode , besides illustrating some of the basic principles of authorship studies , also brings ...
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... complete a demonstration as possible, within reasonable lim- its. I have had three goals in writing this book: to disprove Shakespeare's authorship of 'Shall I die?' and A Funerall Elegye; to prove Ford's author- ship of the latter; and ...
... complete a demonstration as possible, within reasonable lim- its. I have had three goals in writing this book: to disprove Shakespeare's authorship of 'Shall I die?' and A Funerall Elegye; to prove Ford's author- ship of the latter; and ...
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... completing the typescript , by a remarkable coincidence , the editor of Review of English Studies asked me to referee an essay entitled ' A Funeral Elegy : Ford , W. S. , and Shakespeare ' . To my great surprise , it proved to be a ...
... completing the typescript , by a remarkable coincidence , the editor of Review of English Studies asked me to referee an essay entitled ' A Funeral Elegy : Ford , W. S. , and Shakespeare ' . To my great surprise , it proved to be a ...
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... complete ” ( Taylor 1985a , p . 14 ) . The best answer to such absolute assertiveness is to recall the sober restatement of some fundamental principles in authorship studies made by M. W. A. Smith , a leading scholar in the use of ...
... complete ” ( Taylor 1985a , p . 14 ) . The best answer to such absolute assertiveness is to recall the sober restatement of some fundamental principles in authorship studies made by M. W. A. Smith , a leading scholar in the use of ...
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... Complete Works ( 1986 , p . 883 ) , these part - lines are firmly set in the middle of the page , as if they formed distinct units of verse . An examination of the manuscript shows that the scribe transcribed the poem within two ruled ...
... Complete Works ( 1986 , p . 883 ) , these part - lines are firmly set in the middle of the page , as if they formed distinct units of verse . An examination of the manuscript shows that the scribe transcribed the poem within two ruled ...
Inhalt
1 | |
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