1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450652503321

Autore

Vickers Brian

Titolo

Counterfeiting Shakespeare : evidence, authorship, and John Ford's Funerall elegye / / Brian Vickers [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-107-12871-4

1-280-16019-5

0-511-11843-0

1-139-14630-0

0-511-06671-6

0-511-06040-8

0-511-30540-0

0-511-48404-6

0-511-06884-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvii, 568 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

Poetry - Authorship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 554-562) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue: Gary Taylor finds a poem -- ; pt. I. Donald Foster's 'Shakespearean' Construct. ; 1. 'W. S.' and the Elegye for William Peter. ; 2. Parallels? Plagiarisms? ; 3. Vocabulary and diction. ; 4. Grammar: 'the Shakespearean "who"'. ; 5. Prosody, punctuation, pause patterns. ; 6. Rhetoric: 'the Shakespearean "hendiadys"'. ; 7. Statistics and inference. ; 8. A poem 'indistinguishable from Shakespeare'? -- ; pt. II. John Ford's 'Funerall Elegye'. ; 9. Ford's writing career: poet, moralist, playwright. ; 10. Ford and the Elegye's 'Shakespearean diction'. ; 11. The Funerall Elegye in its Fordian context. Epilogue: The politics of attribution -- ; App. I. The text of A Funerall Elegye -- ; App. II. Verbal parallels between A Funerall Elegye and Ford's poems.

Sommario/riassunto

'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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910689889003321

Titolo

Peer-to-peer piracy on university campuses : an update : hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, October 5, 2004

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 56 p.)

Soggetti

Peer-to-peer architecture (Computer networks) - United States

Piracy (Copyright) - United States

Intellectual property - United States

Copyright - Computer files - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia