'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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... language is the primary experience , to which we constantly return . We take it for granted that even the most humble writers deserve to have their work correctly identified , an expectation which becomes more exigent the more eminent ...
... language is the primary experience , to which we constantly return . We take it for granted that even the most humble writers deserve to have their work correctly identified , an expectation which becomes more exigent the more eminent ...
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... language and thought ; and he failed to notice that even where the anonymous poet used words that Shakespeare had also used , he did so with quite different connotations . As the controversy continued , several scholars made ...
... language and thought ; and he failed to notice that even where the anonymous poet used words that Shakespeare had also used , he did so with quite different connotations . As the controversy continued , several scholars made ...
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... language have long known that the anomalous who continued well into the eighteenth century , and was used by Dryden , Swift , and Addison ( see chapter 4 ) . Foster's whole enterprise rested on finding unique verbal quirks in the Elegye ...
... language have long known that the anomalous who continued well into the eighteenth century , and was used by Dryden , Swift , and Addison ( see chapter 4 ) . Foster's whole enterprise rested on finding unique verbal quirks in the Elegye ...
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... language , at whatever level one tests it , is indistinguishable from that found in the Elegye . Finally , in chapter 11 , honouring the old principle that ' La fin couronne les œuvres ' , I present a list of more than eighty passages ...
... language , at whatever level one tests it , is indistinguishable from that found in the Elegye . Finally , in chapter 11 , honouring the old principle that ' La fin couronne les œuvres ' , I present a list of more than eighty passages ...
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