'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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... fact , it proves the opposite , that he was often plagiarized . He quoted Charles Barber to support his claim that Shakespeare was unusual in using the personal pronoun who to refer to antecedent inanimates ( ' the knees Preface xiii.
... fact , it proves the opposite , that he was often plagiarized . He quoted Charles Barber to support his claim that Shakespeare was unusual in using the personal pronoun who to refer to antecedent inanimates ( ' the knees Preface xiii.
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... fact , nearly all of Ford's verse consists of memorial poems , which celebrate the deceased's virtues and untimely death , while denouncing his enemies and asserting his lasting fame – exactly the scheme of the Funerall Elegye . Ford's ...
... fact , nearly all of Ford's verse consists of memorial poems , which celebrate the deceased's virtues and untimely death , while denouncing his enemies and asserting his lasting fame – exactly the scheme of the Funerall Elegye . Ford's ...
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... - tion will not include this poem . ) In authorship studies , as in other forms of intellectual enquiry , it is extremely valuable to receive independent confirmations of one's findings . The fact that three separately XX Preface.
... - tion will not include this poem . ) In authorship studies , as in other forms of intellectual enquiry , it is extremely valuable to receive independent confirmations of one's findings . The fact that three separately XX Preface.
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... fact that three separately conceived studies converge on Ford's authorship of the Elegye must now put that issue beyond dispute . At Cambridge University Press I should like to thank my editor , Sarah Stanton , who patiently encouraged ...
... fact that three separately conceived studies converge on Ford's authorship of the Elegye must now put that issue beyond dispute . At Cambridge University Press I should like to thank my editor , Sarah Stanton , who patiently encouraged ...
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... fact that no other scholar has endorsed Taylor's 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 ...
... fact that no other scholar has endorsed Taylor's 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 ...
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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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