Francis Bacon?s Contribution to Shakespeare
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| ISBN13: | 9780367137823 |
| ISBN10: | 0367137828 |
| Kötéstípus: | Keménykötés |
| Terjedelem: | 340 oldal |
| Méret: | 229x152 mm |
| Súly: | 1300 g |
| Nyelv: | angol |
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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.
Francis Bacon's Contribution to Shakespeare advocates a paradigm shift 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. In the process, arguments are advanced as to why Shakespeare?s First Folio (1623) presents as an unreliable document for attribution, and why contemporary opinion characterised Shakspere [his baptised name] as an opportunist businessman who acquired the work of others. 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 Shakspere 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.
"Bacon throws a weird shadow over it all, although the detailing is very attractive, and the RCP tests are quite persuasive. [The Tempest chapter is] a perfect account of the story. I?m sure that Bacon was a lot closer to Shakespeare than most current accounts allow him to be."
- Professor Andrew Gurr, Editor, New Variorum Tempest
"I'm sympathetic to rare collocation profiling as a source of evidence for authorship."
- Professor Steven Pinker, Harvard University
Chapter 1
Introduction
1.1
A new method of attribution
1.2
Overview of the work
?? ?PART 1: SHAKSPERE AND BACON
??Chapter 2
A Shakspere biography
2.1
Birthdate
2.2
Education
2.3
Literacy
2.4
Access to source material
2.5
Marriage
2.6
Shakspere the businessman
2.7
The Ben Jonson model
2.8
Shakspere the actor
2.9
Shakspere?s exit
??Chapter 3
Contemporary opinion
3.1
Shakspere the dramatist
3.2
The ?War of the Theatres?
3.3
The Parnassus plays
3.4
Ben Jonson?s view
??Chapter 4
A fraudulent First Folio
4.1
Misattributions to Shakspere
4.2
William Jaggard?s integrity
4.3
The First Folio
4.4
RCP results
??Chapter 5
Bacon?s dramatic entrance
5.1
Contemporary opinion of Bacon
5.2
Early years
5.3
Debt, drama, and design
5.4
The fall of Essex
5.5
Bacon?s rise to high office
5.6
Bacon?s fall to low office
??Chapter 6
A charge of brokerage
6.1
The Groats-worth letter
6.2
The letter?s meaning
6.3
Groats-worth and Vertues Common-wealth
6.4
Chettle, Greene, or Nashe?
6.5
The Malone?Alexander debate
6.6
RCP of the Octavo and Folio 3 Henry VI
6.7
The verdict
??Chapter 7
Bacon?s Vertues?
7.1
History of Vertues Common-wealth
7.2
Content of Vertues Common-wealth
7.3
Apophthegmes: Crosse?Bacon
7.4
Rare phrases: Crosse?Bacon?Shakespeare
7.5
Further research
?? ?PART 2: BACON?S INFLUENCE ON SELECTED PLAYS
??Chapter 8
The Comedy of Errors
8.1
The 1594?5 Gray?s Inn revels
8.2
Gray?s Inn connections
8.3
The identity of the players
8.4
RCP analysis of The Comedy of Errors
??Chapter 9
Love?s Labour?s Lost
9.1
The Gesta Grayorum
9.2
Love?s Labour?s Lost
9.3
Parallels between GG and LLL
9.4
A play designed around the revels
??Chapter 10
Twelfth Night
10.1
Dating Twelfth Night?s topical allusions
10.2
Twelfth Night and the Middle Temple
10.3
Middle Temple characters
10.4
Misrule at the Middle Temple
10.5
The acting company
10.6
A Middle Temple play
10.7
An RCP analysis of Twelfth Night
??Chapter 11
The Tempest
11.1
The Virginia colony
11.2
The ?True Reportory? and The Tempest
11.3
Shakspere?s inaccess to the ?True Reportory?
11.4
The Tempest and Virginia Company literature
11.5
?True Reportory? and A true declaration
11.6
The Tempest as a political tool
11.7
Francis Bacon?s rare parallels with The Tempest
?? ?PART 3: ATTRIBUTION METHODS
??Chapter 12
A history of authorship attribution
12.1
A body of text
12.2
External and internal evidence
12.3
Non-scientific practice
12.4
Biographical delusions
12.5
The introduction of counting methods
??Chapter 13
Modern attribution methods
13.1
Critique of modern methods
13.2
The Zeta test
13.3
The Delta test
13.4
Phrases and collocations
??Chapter 14
The new method of Rare Collocation Profiling
14.1
The EEBO search engine
14.2
The RCP method
14.3
Non-equalization of author corpora
14.4
The running track
14.5
A test case: A Funerall Elegye (1612)
14.6
Summary of RCP conclusions
?? ?Epilogue
??Appendix A
RCP results for 3 Henry VI
??Appendix B
RCP results for The Comedy of Errors
??Appendix C
RCP results for Gesta Grayorum
??Appendix D
RCP results for Love?s Labour?s Lost
??Appendix E
RCP results for Twelfth Night
??Appendix F
RCP results for The Tempest
??Appendix G
Full RCP analysis of Pericles Act 1
?? ?? ?BONUS ESSAYS: RESPONSE TO COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE
1.
Alleged Shakespeare Portrait
2.
A Country Controversy
