Shakespeare, Co-Author A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays

Name: Shakespeare, Co-Author A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays
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ISBN: 9780199269167

ISBN-10: 0199269165

ISBN-13: 9780199269167

Edition: 2004

Authors: Brian Vickers

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No issue in Shakespeare studies is more important than determining what he wrote. For over two centuries scholars have discussed the evidence that Shakespeare worked with co-authors on several plays, and have used a variety of methods to differentiate their contributions from his. In this wide-ranging study, Brian Vickers takes up and extends these discussions, presenting compelling evidence that Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus together with George Peele, Timon of Athens with Thomas Middleton, Pericles with George Wilkins, and Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen with John Fletcher. In Part One Vickers reviews the standard processes of co-authorship as they can be reconstructed from…

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List price: $82.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/11/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 580
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 2.2



Preface



Elizabethan drama and the methodology of authorship studies



Authorship in English Renaissance drama



Identifying co-authors


II



Titus Andronicus, with George Peele



Timon of Athens, with Thomas Middleton



Pericles, with George Wilkins



Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen, with John Fletcher



Plot and character in co-authored plays: problems of coordination


Appendix


Bibliography


Index