'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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... never tested his claim against negative evidence ; he worked with atom- istic verbal units , instead of comparing longer sequences of language and thought ; and he failed to notice that even where the anonymous poet used words that ...
... never tested his claim against negative evidence ; he worked with atom- istic verbal units , instead of comparing longer sequences of language and thought ; and he failed to notice that even where the anonymous poet used words that ...
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... never been dropped , and despite many detailed criticisms of his work - Foster still maintains that he is right , his critics completely wrong . — Since Foster used many more different approaches than Taylor , I have had to devote ...
... never been dropped , and despite many detailed criticisms of his work - Foster still maintains that he is right , his critics completely wrong . — Since Foster used many more different approaches than Taylor , I have had to devote ...
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... never was . These and other features allow us to dismiss it as unShakespearian . Who , then , wrote the Elegye ? In Part II I present the case , in three stages , for John Ford's authorship . In chapter 9 I first review the biographical ...
... never was . These and other features allow us to dismiss it as unShakespearian . Who , then , wrote the Elegye ? In Part II I present the case , in three stages , for John Ford's authorship . In chapter 9 I first review the biographical ...
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... never done in the statistical methods favoured in recent authorship studies, by drawing on my analysis of Ford's poems and prose works, with their fusion of Christian and Stoic ethics. A word such as 'steadiness' is not simply a ...
... never done in the statistical methods favoured in recent authorship studies, by drawing on my analysis of Ford's poems and prose works, with their fusion of Christian and Stoic ethics. A word such as 'steadiness' is not simply a ...
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PART I Donald Fosters Shakespearean construct | 55 |
PART II John Fords Funerall Elegye | 261 |
Appendices | 467 |
Notes | 509 |
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563 | |
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