'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare: Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall ElegyeCambridge University Press, 19 вер. 2002 р. - 568 стор. '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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... arguments for and against the ascription , but to many readers the very presence of these poems in the four most widely used one - volume editions of Shakespeare , which sell thousands of copies every year , may be taken as proof that ...
... arguments for and against the ascription , but to many readers the very presence of these poems in the four most widely used one - volume editions of Shakespeare , which sell thousands of copies every year , may be taken as proof that ...
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... arguments by which Taylor and Foster have managed to get them accepted fail to meet correct procedures in authorship studies . The Prologue , ' Gary Taylor Finds a Poem ' , besides describing the in- stant controversy surrounding ...
... arguments by which Taylor and Foster have managed to get them accepted fail to meet correct procedures in authorship studies . The Prologue , ' Gary Taylor Finds a Poem ' , besides describing the in- stant controversy surrounding ...
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... argument . He never presented any evidence that Shakespeare knew William Peter , a young and obscure Devonshire gentleman killed in a drunken quarrel over a horse . Foster concluded that the initials ' W. S. ' faithfully represented ...
... argument . He never presented any evidence that Shakespeare knew William Peter , a young and obscure Devonshire gentleman killed in a drunken quarrel over a horse . Foster concluded that the initials ' W. S. ' faithfully represented ...
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... argument is illustrated by quotations; but in authorship studies the quotations are the argument, the primary evidence around which everything revolves. It is inevitable, then, that enquiries such as these depend on full quotation ...
... argument is illustrated by quotations; but in authorship studies the quotations are the argument, the primary evidence around which everything revolves. It is inevitable, then, that enquiries such as these depend on full quotation ...
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... arguments . Neither Taylor nor Foster escaped these temptations . This book ends with a reminder that authorship stud- ies , like all forms of research , is best performed with an open mind and a constant readiness to reconsider the ...
... arguments . Neither Taylor nor Foster escaped these temptations . This book ends with a reminder that authorship stud- ies , like all forms of research , is best performed with an open mind and a constant readiness to reconsider the ...
Зміст
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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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