'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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... parallels, isolated words and phrases which were merely commonplace expressions; both use too small a sample, ignore negative evidence, and violate basic principles in authorship studies. Through a fresh examination of the evidence ...
... parallels, isolated words and phrases which were merely commonplace expressions; both use too small a sample, ignore negative evidence, and violate basic principles in authorship studies. Through a fresh examination of the evidence ...
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... Parallels? Plagiarisms? 3. Vocabulary and diction 4. Grammar: 'the Shakespearean “whom 5. Prosody, punctuation, pause patterns 6. Rhetoric: 'the Shakespearean “hendiadys”' 7. Statistics and inference 8. A poem 'indistinguishable from ...
... Parallels? Plagiarisms? 3. Vocabulary and diction 4. Grammar: 'the Shakespearean “whom 5. Prosody, punctuation, pause patterns 6. Rhetoric: 'the Shakespearean “hendiadys”' 7. Statistics and inference 8. A poem 'indistinguishable from ...
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... parallels between A Funeral! Elegye and F0rd's poems III. Establishing Ford's canon Notes Bibliogmp/Q1 Index 469 484 494 599 554 563 Preface A fundamental issue in humanistic enquiry concerns the authenticity X Conten/it.
... parallels between A Funeral! Elegye and F0rd's poems III. Establishing Ford's canon Notes Bibliogmp/Q1 Index 469 484 494 599 554 563 Preface A fundamental issue in humanistic enquiry concerns the authenticity X Conten/it.
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... parallels in Shakespeare, but he made at least three major errors: he failed to check the claimed parallels against the work of other poets working between and , and so never tested his claim against negative evidence ...
... parallels in Shakespeare, but he made at least three major errors: he failed to check the claimed parallels against the work of other poets working between and , and so never tested his claim against negative evidence ...
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... parallels in Ford's work. Well aware of the methodological dangers involved, I have only cited individual words where I could show them to be rare or even unique to Ford, and not used by Shakespeare. Otherwise I have limited my claims ...
... parallels in Ford's work. Well aware of the methodological dangers involved, I have only cited individual words where I could show them to be rare or even unique to Ford, and not used by Shakespeare. Otherwise I have limited my claims ...
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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