Antedating Shakespeare's Poems and Plays

Penny McCarthy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

195 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-1003-2 (ISBN)

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The academic community treats the chronology of Shakespeare's works as settled. He supposedly served an apprenticeship collaborating on plays in the 1580s, wrote two great poems in the early 90s, three plays a year from the mid-90s, some problem plays around the turn of the century, then his greatest tragedies, and finally some "romances" late in his career. This investigation highlights the flaws in the consensus view: over-reliance on precarious stylometrics, dubious identification of topical relevance, and unfounded conviction that composition preceded publication, performance, or first mention by only a short interval. Concentrating on his poems and six of his plays, the study ascribes parallels in others' literary works to their authors' imitation or parodying of Shakespeare, not vice versa. The importance of patronage circles rather than London theatre companies to writers, players, and printers is spelled out. The conclusion is that Shakespeare's works must be radically antedated.

Penny McCarthy is an independent scholar who holds her MA (1991) and D Phil from Sussex University, England (1997). She held an honorary research fellowship in English at Glasgow University, Scotland (1998-2010). Her original degree was in Classics, from Oxford University, England. She has published two monographs, Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle (2006) and Discovering the Hidden Figure of a Child in Shakespeare's Sonnets as the Key to a New Interpretation (2015) (awarded the D. S. Evans Prize for a distinguished contribution to scholarship). Her essay "Autumn 1604: Documentation and Literary Coincidence", appeared in Mary Wroth and Shakespeare, edited by Paul Salzman and Marion Wynne-Davies (2015); and she has had articles on Edmund Spenser, Mary Wroth, the Gunpowder Plot, and Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Tempest published in Notes & Queries, Studies in English Literature 1500-1800, Modern Language Review, Around the Globe, Critical Survey, and the Times Literary Supplement.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-0364-1003-X / 103641003X
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-1003-2 / 9781036410032
Zustand	Neuware