No 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 shares from his. In this wide-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 John Fletcher. 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 and staged. 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. Synthesising 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.
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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 shares from his. This study takes up and extends these discussions, presenting an evidence.
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I. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA AND THE METHODOLOGY OF AUTHORSHIP STUDIES ; II. SHAKESPEARE AS CO-AUTHOR
Those who enjoy reading literary mysteries, should purchase this book to explore its insightful explanations.
`Vickers provides a marvellous review of standard Elizabethan stage practices.' Virginia Quarterly Review `... a major contribution to the arcane domain of attribution studies, which has wider implications for our understanding of Shakespeare's poetry and plays. For, in the course of confuting misattributions and giving collaborators their due, Vickers equips us with the means of identifying, more confidently than was previously possible, the unmistakable music of Shakespeare's mind at play in language, and the different tunes it danced to at different points in his career. He thereby supplies powerful ammunition for combating not only post-structural-ist twaddle about the death of the author, but also the plague of historicism that has diverted attention from Shakespeare's unique verbal art for far too long.' The Times Higher Education Supplement `This rich monograph is a pleasure to read and ponder, from beginning to end.' The Virginia Quarterly Review `... magisterial survey of (almost) everything written on the subject of Shakespearean collaboration in the past 150 years.' Jonathan Bate, The Times Literary Supplement `Rewarding ... sharp glimpses of what it was like to write for the stage in Elizabethan and Jacobean London. Vickers gives an indelible impression of the sheer hunger for plays of London's theatre companies from the 1590s.' John Mullan, The Guardian (Review)
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Provides a detailed evaluation of the claims made for Shakespeare's co-authorship of Titus Andronicus, Timon of Athens, Pericles, Henry VIII, and The Two Noble Kinsmen Examines the processes of collaboration and the methods used in authorship studies since the early nineteenth century Identifies and summarizes a coherent tradition in attribution work on Shakespeare
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Provides a detailed evaluation of the claims made for Shakespeare's co-authorship of Titus Andronicus, Timon of Athens, Pericles, Henry VIII, and The Two Noble Kinsmen Examines the processes of collaboration and the methods used in authorship studies since the early nineteenth century Identifies and summarizes a coherent tradition in attribution work on Shakespeare
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ISBN
9780199256532
Publisert
2002
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
1131 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
164 mm
Dybde
35 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
576

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