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Author: Patrick Cheney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-06-26
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0521881668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book considers Shakespeare as a literary figure, analysing his full professional career, both poetry and plays.
Author: James Shapiro
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-04-19
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1416541632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
Author: Diana Price
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt successfully argues that "William Shakespeare" was the pen name of an aristocrat, and that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon was a shrewd entrepreneur, not a dramatist."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Brian Vickers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780199269167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo issue in Shakespeare studies is more important than determining what he wrote. For over two centuries scholars have discussed the evidence that Shakespeare worked with co-authors on several plays, and have used a variety of methods to differentiate their contributions from his. In thiswide-ranging study, Brian Vickers takes up and extends these discussions, presenting compelling evidence that Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus together with George Peele, Timon of Athens with Thomas Middleton, Pericles with George Wilkins, and Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen with JohnFletcher.In Part One Vickers reviews the standard processes of co-authorship as they can be reconstructed from documents connected with the Elizabethan stage, and shows that every major, and most minor dramatists in the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline theatres collaborated in getting plays written andstaged. This is combined with a survey of the types of methodology used since the early nineteenth century to identify co-authorship, and a critical evaluation of some 'stylometric' techniques.Part Two is devoted to detailed analyses of the five collaborative plays, discussing every significant case made for and against Shakespeare's co-authorship. Synthesizing two centuries of discussion, Vickers reveals a solidly based scholarly tradition, building on and extending previous work,identifying the co-authors' contributions in increasing detail. The range and quantity of close verbal analysis brought together in Shakespeare, Co-Author present a compelling case to counter those 'conservators' of Shakespeare who maintain that he is the sole author of his plays.
Author: William Leahy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-03-17
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1441148361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Shakespeare Authorship question - the question of who wrote Shakespeare's plays and who the man we know as Shakespeare was - is a subject which fascinates millions of people the world over and can be seen as a major cultural phenomenon. However, much discussion of the question exists on the very margins of academia, deemed by most Shakespearean academics as unimportant or, indeed, of interest only to conspiracy theorists. Yet, many academics find the Authorship question interesting and worthy of analysis in theoretical and philosophical terms. This collection brings together leading literary and cultural critics to explore the Authorship question as a social, cultural and even theological phenomenon and consider it in all its rich diversity and significance.
Author: Gary Taylor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-02-10
Total Pages: 776
ISBN-13: 0192517600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis companion volume to The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works concentrates on the issues of canon and chronology—currently the most active and controversial debates in the field of Shakespeare editing. It presents in full the evidence behind the choices made in The Complete Works about which works Shakespeare wrote, in whole or part. A major new contribution to attribution studies, the Authorship Companion illuminates the work and methodology underpinning the groundbreaking New Oxford Shakespeare, and casts new light on the professional working practices, and creative endeavours, of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. We now know that Shakespeare collaborated with his literary and dramatic contemporaries, and that others adapted his works before they reached printed publication. The Authorship Companion's essays explore and explain these processes, laying out everything we currently know about the works' authorship. Using a variety of different attribution methods, The New Oxford Shakespeare has confirmed the presence of other writers' hands in plays that until recently were thought to be Shakespeare's solo work. Taking this process further with meticulous, fresh scholarship, essays in the Authorship Companion show why we must now add new plays to the accepted Shakespeare canon and reattribute certain parts of familiar Shakespeare plays to other writers. The technical arguments for these decisions about Shakespeare's creativity are carefully laid out in language that anyone interested in the topic can understand. The latest methods for authorship attribution are explained in simple but accurate terms and all the linguistic data on which the conclusions are based is provided. The New Oxford Shakespeare consists of four interconnected publications: the Modern Critical Edition (with modern spelling), the Critical Reference Edition (with original spelling), a companion volume on Authorship, and an online version integrating all of this material on OUP's high-powered scholarly editions platform. Together, they provide the perfect resource for the future of Shakespeare studies.
Author: Scott McCrea
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2005-01-30
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemonstrates that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon really did write the plays and poems attributed to him via a literary forensics case that puts all other authorship theories to rest.
Author: Lukas Erne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-04-25
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1107029651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second edition of Erne's groundbreaking study includes a new preface that reviews the controversy the book has triggered.
Author: John Michell
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780500281130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprinted from 1st pbk. ed., published in 1999. Originally published in hardcover in 1996.
Author: Hugh Craig
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-08-27
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0521516234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing computer analysis, this book confronts the main unsolved mysteries of authorship in Shakespeare's canon, providing some surprising conclusions.
