By Brian Vickers
ISBN-10: 0199256535
ISBN-13: 9780199256532
This significant new learn asks the query, "how a lot can we find out about Shakespeare's collaborations with different dramatists?", and units out to supply a close review of the claims made for Shakespeare's co-authorship of Titus Andronicus, Timon of Athens, Pericles, Henry VIII, and The Two Noble Kinsmen. via an exam of the tactics of collaboration and the equipment utilized in authorship reports because the early 19th century, Brian Vickers identifies a coherent culture in attribution paintings on Shakespeare.
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B-Graphs 3. C-Graphs Notes: Appendix II Abolishing the Author? Theory versus History I II III Notes: Bibliography 1. Primary Works 2. iv) This book has been printed digitally and produced in a standard specification in order to ensure its continuing availability Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. , New York © Brian Vickers 2002 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) Reprinted 2006 Ail rights reserved.
These two collaborations were shortly followed by the first public witness to the many co authored plays in which Philip Massinger took part. The Virgin Martyr … Written by Philip Messenger and Thomas Deker (1622). The same year brought forth a Red Bull play. The trueTragedyofHerod and Antipater … Written by Gervase Markham, And William Sampson. Gentlemen. M. F. (1632). the second set of initials referring to. Nathan Field. In the 1630s several re-editions of collaborative plays previously ascribed to Fletcher alone now disclosed his co-author.
Sampley) to redefine the criteria by which parallel passages could be validly used in authorship studies. As I show, all the leading authorities on the two most fruitfully studied dramatic canons, those of John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton, have admitted verbal parallels as relevant supporting evidence: E. H. C. Oliphant, R. H. Barker, Cyrus Hoy, David J. Lake, and MacDonald P. Jackson. These scholars have used other newer, linguistic, approaches, such as identifying an author's preferred vocabulary (Latinate or Anglo-Saxon, learned or popular), habits of word-formation, choice of oaths or expletives, variant grammatical forms (has or hath, whiles or while), and even the frequency with which they use such apparently insignificant ‘function words’ as and or of.