'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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... writing career : poet , moralist , playwright 10. Ford and the Elegye's ' Shakespearean diction ' 11. The Funerall Elegye in its Fordian context Epilogue . The politics of attribution 263 302 363 422 APPENDICES I. The text of A Funerall ...
... writing career : poet , moralist , playwright 10. Ford and the Elegye's ' Shakespearean diction ' 11. The Funerall Elegye in its Fordian context Epilogue . The politics of attribution 263 302 363 422 APPENDICES I. The text of A Funerall ...
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... writers represented a closed 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 ...
... writers represented a closed 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 ...
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... writing career , much of which will be unfamiliar to non- specialists , particularly his poems and prose works , produced between 1606 and 1620. Ford's poetry includes two memorial poems to the Earl of Devonshire , Fames Memoriall ...
... writing career , much of which will be unfamiliar to non- specialists , particularly his poems and prose works , produced between 1606 and 1620. Ford's poetry includes two memorial poems to the Earl of Devonshire , Fames Memoriall ...
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... writing this book: to disprove Shakespeare's authorship of 'Shall I die?' and A Funerall Elegye; to prove Ford's author- ship of the latter; and to give a full demonstration of the methodology used in modern authorship studies. To ...
... writing this book: to disprove Shakespeare's authorship of 'Shall I die?' and A Funerall Elegye; to prove Ford's author- ship of the latter; and to give a full demonstration of the methodology used in modern authorship studies. To ...
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... writing this book . Margrit Soland , both during her time with me and since her retirement , has proved a penetrating critic , applying her wide knowledge to several philological problems . Katherine Hahn has developed unexpected skills ...
... writing this book . Margrit Soland , both during her time with me and since her retirement , has proved a penetrating critic , applying her wide knowledge to several philological problems . Katherine Hahn has developed unexpected skills ...
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