'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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... studies . BRIAN VICKERS is Professor of English Literature and Director of the Centre for Renaissance Studies at the Eidgenössische Tech- nische Hochschule , Zürich . He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy . His ...
... studies . BRIAN VICKERS is Professor of English Literature and Director of the Centre for Renaissance Studies at the Eidgenössische Tech- nische Hochschule , Zürich . He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy . His ...
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... studies . The Prologue , ' Gary Taylor Finds a Poem ' , besides describing the in- stant controversy surrounding ' Shall I die ? ' , is intended as a brief intro- duction to the methodology used in attribution studies . ( I have ...
... studies . The Prologue , ' Gary Taylor Finds a Poem ' , besides describing the in- stant controversy surrounding ' Shall I die ? ' , is intended as a brief intro- duction to the methodology used in attribution studies . ( I have ...
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... studies, by drawing on my analysis of Ford's poems and prose works, with their fusion of Christian and Stoic ethics ... studies. To achieve all three goals I have had to quote both primary texts and critical interpretation in some detail ...
... studies, by drawing on my analysis of Ford's poems and prose works, with their fusion of Christian and Stoic ethics ... studies. To achieve all three goals I have had to quote both primary texts and critical interpretation in some detail ...
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... studies , almost more than other branches of literary criticism , is prone to two tempta- tions . One is the pursuit of scholarly disagreement in a personal manner , as if the goal of such disputes was not to establish truth , or ...
... studies , almost more than other branches of literary criticism , is prone to two tempta- tions . One is the pursuit of scholarly disagreement in a personal manner , as if the goal of such disputes was not to establish truth , or ...
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... studies of the Shakespeare authorship problem . I supplied them with electronic texts of Ford's two major poems , which they sub- jected to rigorously quantitative linguistic analysis , producing the happy result that the odds on the ...
... studies of the Shakespeare authorship problem . I supplied them with electronic texts of Ford's two major poems , which they sub- jected to rigorously quantitative linguistic analysis , producing the happy result that the odds on the ...
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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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