'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare: Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall ElegyeCambridge University Press, 2002年9月19日 - 568 頁 '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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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 39 筆
第 xiii 頁
... present as unproblematic the identification of a writer from initials . In other areas he simply mis- read texts . He cited an Elizabethan play as evidence that Shakespeare was regularly described as a plagiarist : in fact , it proves ...
... present as unproblematic the identification of a writer from initials . In other areas he simply mis- read texts . He cited an Elizabethan play as evidence that Shakespeare was regularly described as a plagiarist : in fact , it proves ...
第 xvi 頁
... present the case , in three stages , for John Ford's authorship . In chapter 9 I first review the biographical evidence , much of it collected by Donald Foster , who failed to see its im- plications . Ford was born in a Devonshire ...
... present the case , in three stages , for John Ford's authorship . In chapter 9 I first review the biographical evidence , much of it collected by Donald Foster , who failed to see its im- plications . Ford was born in a Devonshire ...
第 xvii 頁
... present a list of more than eighty passages in the Elegye for which I have found close parallels in Ford's work . Well aware of the methodological dangers involved , I have only cited individual words where I could show them to be rare ...
... present a list of more than eighty passages in the Elegye for which I have found close parallels in Ford's work . Well aware of the methodological dangers involved , I have only cited individual words where I could show them to be rare ...
第 xix 頁
... present form , omitting two further chapters . As for Part II , my case for John Ford's authorship of the Elegye , I have four people to thank . Ironically enough , Donald Foster himself first drew attention to several parallels between ...
... present form , omitting two further chapters . As for Part II , my case for John Ford's authorship of the Elegye , I have four people to thank . Ironically enough , Donald Foster himself first drew attention to several parallels between ...
第 24 頁
... presents a hypothesis of authorship based on several kinds of evidence , which have been carefully weighed , alternative explanations having been investigated and rejected . If such ascriptions can be reduced by more than a half once ...
... presents a hypothesis of authorship based on several kinds of evidence , which have been carefully weighed , alternative explanations having been investigated and rejected . If such ascriptions can be reduced by more than a half once ...
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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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