Antedating Shakespeare's Poems and Plays

Antedating Shakespeare's Poems and Plays
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 197
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ISBN-10 : 9781036410049
ISBN-13 : 1036410048
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Download or read book Antedating Shakespeare's Poems and Plays written by Penny McCarthy and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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