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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Clarke, Barry R.
Titre(s) : Francis Bacon's contribution to Shakespeare [Texte imprimé] : a new attribution method / Barry R. Clarke ; foreword by Sir Mark Rylance
Publication : New York ; London : Routledge, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xxix, 310 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 35
Lien à la collection : Routledge studies in Shakespeare
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"A paradigm shift is advocated, away from a single-author theory of the Shakespeare
work towards a many-hands theory. Here, the middle ground is adopted between competing
so-called Stratfordian and alternative single-author conspiracy theories. Current
methods of authorship attribution are critiqued, and an entirely new Rare Collocation
Profiling (RCP) method is introduced which, unlike current stylometric methods, is
capable of detecting multiple contributors to a text. Using the Early English Books
Online database, rare phrases and collocations in a target text are identified together
with the authors who used them. This allows a DNA-type profile to be constructed for
the possible contributors to a text that also takes into account direction of influence.
The method brings powerful new evidence to bear on crucial questions such as the author
of the Groats-worth of Witte (1592) letter, the identifiable hands in 3 Henry VI,
the extent of Francis Bacon's contribution to Twelfth Night and The Tempest, and the
scheduling of Love's Labour's Lost at the 1594-5 Gray's Inn Christmas revels for which
Bacon wrote entertainments. The treatise also provides detailed analyses of the nature
of the complaint against Shakspere in the Groats-worth letter, the identity of the
players who performed The Comedy of Errors at Gray's Inn in 1594, and the reasons
why Shakespere could not have had access to Virginia colony information that appears
in The Tempest. With a Foreword by Sir Mark Rylance, this meticulously researched
and penetrating study is a thought-provoking read for the inquisitive student in Shakespeare
Studies"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Rylance, Mark (1960-....). Préfacier
Sujet(s) : Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
Querelles littéraires
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780367137823. - ISBN 0367137828. - ISBN 9780429028540 (erroné). - ISBN 9780429639807 (erroné). - ISBN 9780429636639 (erroné). - ISBN 9780429642975 (erroné). - ISBN 9780367225445. - ISBN 0367225441
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45725141v
Notice n° :
FRBNF45725141
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : A Shakspere biography ; Contemporary opinion ; A fraudulent first folio ; Bacon's dramatic entrance ; A charge of brokerage ; Bacon's vertues? ; The comedy of errors ; Love's labour's lost ; Twelfth night ; The tempest ; A history of authorship attribution ; Modern attribution methods ; The new method of rare collocation profiling.
