The Shakespeare Controversy
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-3917-1 (ISBN)
Theories stating that plays attributed to Shakespeare were in fact written by other authors have existed for more than 200 years; some theories have been ridiculed and reviled while some have gained growing popular and scholarly support. The history of the Shakespeare controversy is presented in this revised edition of the 1992 work, with much new information and three additional chapters. Part I documents and critically assesses the most important theories on the authorship question. Part II is an annotated bibliography, arranged chronologically, of the many works that deal with the controversy from its vague beginnings to the present.
Warren Hope taught in community colleges and universities in the Philadelphia area as an adjunct instructor in English following a career in publishing and public relations. He is the author of books of poems and critical studies of a number of authors including Philip Larkin and George Orwell. Kim R. Holston is a staff librarian in the multimedia department of Chester County Library, Exton, Pennsylvania where he assists the public seeking recommendations on motion pictures, audiobooks, eBooks, and music CDs. He has written or cowritten several books for McFarland.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
PART
1. A Founding Mother: Delia Bacon
2. Shakespeare on the Mississippi: Whitman, O’Connor, and Twain
3. The Great Cryptogrammatist: Ignatius Donnelly
4. The Birthplace: Joseph Skipsey and Henry James
5. An Agnostic and Two Rebels: Greenwood, Samuel Butler, and Frank Harris
6. Many Candidates: Marlowe, Rutland, Derby, and So On
7. “Shakespeare” Identified: J. Thomas Looney
8. Professionals, Amateurs, and the Question of Authority
9. The Growing Oxfordian Challenge
10. The Stratfordian Response
11. The Rest Is Scholarship
Chapter Notes
PART
Chronological Annotated Bibliography
Appendices
Associations and Websites
Libraries
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.7.2009 |
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Zusatzinfo | 15 photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index |
Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
Gewicht | 467 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7864-3917-3 / 0786439173 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7864-3917-1 / 9780786439171 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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