'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare: Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall Elegye

by Brian Vickers

Book Overview

Brian Vickers addresses the fundamental issues of what Shakespeare actually wrote, and how this is determined. In recent years Shakespeare's 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. Through a new examination of the evidence, Professor Vickers shows that neither poem has the stylistic and imaginative qualities we...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521772435
• ISBN13: 9780521772433
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 598 Pages
• Weight: 2.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"