'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 xi 頁
... 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 they have been accepted into the canon . Was this an ...
... 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 they have been accepted into the canon . Was this an ...
第 xv 頁
... readers that a genuine scholarly case had been made . Having been led to accept the existence of ' the Shakespearean who ' , they were equally ready to accept his identification of ' the Shakespearean hendiadys ' . Foster took over the ...
... readers that a genuine scholarly case had been made . Having been led to accept the existence of ' the Shakespearean who ' , they were equally ready to accept his identification of ' the Shakespearean hendiadys ' . Foster took over the ...
第 xviii 頁
... readers may object that I could have presented the evidence for Ford's authorship more briefly. But my aim has been to provide as complete a demonstration as possible, within reasonable lim- its. I have had three goals in writing this ...
... readers may object that I could have presented the evidence for Ford's authorship more briefly. But my aim has been to provide as complete a demonstration as possible, within reasonable lim- its. I have had three goals in writing this ...
第 10 頁
... readers will also have noticed the unusual metre , doggedly carried through over a far longer stretch of verse than anything we can recall in Shakespeare's au- thentic work . Defining the metre , however , is more difficult than it ...
... readers will also have noticed the unusual metre , doggedly carried through over a far longer stretch of verse than anything we can recall in Shakespeare's au- thentic work . Defining the metre , however , is more difficult than it ...
第 13 頁
... readers , if left to their own devices and free from any metrical pressure , would be inclined to stress “ want- ” more strongly than “ -ly ” , “ make ” more strongly than " to " , and " gold " more strongly than “ her ” ( p . 12 ) ...
... readers , if left to their own devices and free from any metrical pressure , would be inclined to stress “ want- ” more strongly than “ -ly ” , “ make ” more strongly than " to " , and " gold " more strongly than “ her ” ( p . 12 ) ...
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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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