'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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... linguistic and statistical analysis this book makes an important contribution to authorship studies . BRIAN VICKERS is Professor of English Literature and Director of the Centre for Renaissance Studies at the Eidgenössische Tech- nische ...
... linguistic and statistical analysis this book makes an important contribution to authorship studies . BRIAN VICKERS is Professor of English Literature and Director of the Centre for Renaissance Studies at the Eidgenössische Tech- nische ...
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... linguistic fabric indistinguishable from that of canonical Shakespeare ' ( Foster 1996a , p . 1082 ) . A gratifying media buzz responded to these newly emphatic assertions , a wave of attention that brought the poem into those three ...
... linguistic fabric indistinguishable from that of canonical Shakespeare ' ( Foster 1996a , p . 1082 ) . A gratifying media buzz responded to these newly emphatic assertions , a wave of attention that brought the poem into those three ...
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... linguistic category . Here he fell into the same error as Gary Taylor , if on a larger scale : his sample was too small , and he failed to look for contrary evidence . Foster compiled an impressive ' Checklist of English Memorial Verse ...
... linguistic category . Here he fell into the same error as Gary Taylor , if on a larger scale : his sample was too small , and he failed to look for contrary evidence . Foster compiled an impressive ' Checklist of English Memorial Verse ...
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... linguistic detail , like all the others , to statistical analysis , but literary statistics need to be based on a correct identification of the relevant verbal feature . A closer look at the inferences Foster drew from his statistics ...
... linguistic detail , like all the others , to statistical analysis , but literary statistics need to be based on a correct identification of the relevant verbal feature . A closer look at the inferences Foster drew from his statistics ...
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... linguistic counter that can be found in a concordance or with an electronic search function, but a term having specific connotations within a philosophical system. Its significance is contextual, provided that one recognizes the correct ...
... linguistic counter that can be found in a concordance or with an electronic search function, but a term having specific connotations within a philosophical system. Its significance is contextual, provided that one recognizes the correct ...
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