'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare: Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall ElegyeCambridge University Press, 19 sept. 2002 - 568 pagini '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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... instances of it in the Elegye he showed that he had not understood its function and internal dynamic . Most of those instances are mere noun- doublets , lacking the specifically Shakespearian qualities by which the terms become ...
... instances of it in the Elegye he showed that he had not understood its function and internal dynamic . Most of those instances are mere noun- doublets , lacking the specifically Shakespearian qualities by which the terms become ...
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... instances ) , ' doom ' ( 155 ) , ' policy ' ( 90 ) , ' manly ' ( 61 ) , ' sacrifice ' ( 55 ) , ' daunt ' ( 52 ) , ' entrail ' ( 46 ) , ' massacre ' ( 40 ) , ' meanwhile ' ( 37 ) , ' empery ' ( 34 ) , ' glis- tering ' ( 32 ) , progeny ...
... instances ) , ' doom ' ( 155 ) , ' policy ' ( 90 ) , ' manly ' ( 61 ) , ' sacrifice ' ( 55 ) , ' daunt ' ( 52 ) , ' entrail ' ( 46 ) , ' massacre ' ( 40 ) , ' meanwhile ' ( 37 ) , ' empery ' ( 34 ) , ' glis- tering ' ( 32 ) , progeny ...
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... instances Spenser is actually nearer the anonymous poet . In the phrase ' joying never ' ( 8 ) , for instance , Robbins pointed out that " " joying " occurs nowhere in Shakespeare , but six times in Spenser ' . In the collocation ' ex ...
... instances Spenser is actually nearer the anonymous poet . In the phrase ' joying never ' ( 8 ) , for instance , Robbins pointed out that " " joying " occurs nowhere in Shakespeare , but six times in Spenser ' . In the collocation ' ex ...
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... instances of one's ideas , in the expectation that a certain number of such instances will , as it were , send a hypothesis over the top ' . But since the same data can be ... held to support any number of quite different hypotheses ...
... instances of one's ideas , in the expectation that a certain number of such instances will , as it were , send a hypothesis over the top ' . But since the same data can be ... held to support any number of quite different hypotheses ...
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... instances , Pendleton conceded , might be dismissed , ' but as the examples become more numerous , they do not merely accumulate improbability , they multiply it ; if it is unusual that Shakespeare used this one word in this manner , it ...
... instances , Pendleton conceded , might be dismissed , ' but as the examples become more numerous , they do not merely accumulate improbability , they multiply it ; if it is unusual that Shakespeare used this one word in this manner , it ...
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PART I Donald Fosters Shakespearean construct | 55 |
PART II John Fords Funerall Elegye | 261 |
Appendices | 467 |
Notes | 509 |
Bibliography | 554 |
Index | 563 |
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