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Counterfeiting Shakespeare : = evidence, authorship, and John Ford's Funerall elegye /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Counterfeiting Shakespeare :/ Brian Vickers.
Reminder of title:	evidence, authorship, and John Ford's Funerall elegye /
Author:	Vickers, Brian,
Description:	1 online resource (xxvii, 568 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Poetry - Authorship. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484049
ISBN:	9780511484049 (ebook)

Counterfeiting Shakespeare : = evidence, authorship, and John Ford's Funerall elegye /
Vickers, Brian,

Counterfeiting Shakespeare :evidence, authorship, and John Ford's Funerall elegye /Brian Vickers. - 1 online resource (xxvii, 568 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Prologue: Gary Taylor finds a poem --pt. I.

'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.

ISBN: 9780511484049 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

1438871
W. S.
Funerall elegye in memory of the late virtuous master William Peeter of Whipton neere Exetour.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Poetry
--Authorship.

LC Class. No.: PR2873.F86 / V53 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 822.3/3

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