Includes bibliographical references (pages 675-710) and index.
Contents:
The canon and chronology of Shakepeare's works / Artiginality: authorship after postmodernism / Gary Taylor and Rory Loughnane. A history of Shakespearean authorship attribution / Gabriel Egan -- One-horse races: some recent studies / Macdonald P. Jackson -- The limitations of Vickers's trigram tests / Gabriel Egan -- Who wrothe the fly scene (3.2) in Titus Andronicus?: Automated searches and deep reading / Gary Taylor and Dough Duhaime -- Refining the LION collocation test: a comparative study of authorship test results for Titus Andronicus Scene 6 (= 4.1) / Anna Pruitt -- Potential Shakespeare: the poetic apocrypha and methods of modern attribution / Francis X. Connor -- Shakespear, Arden of Faversham, and A Lover's Complaint: a review of reviews / Macdonald P. Jackson -- Part II: Case studies -- Arden of Faversham, Shakespearean authorship, and 'the print of many' / Jack Elliott and Brett Greatley-Hirsch -- A supplementary lexical test for Arden of Faversham / Macdonald P. Jackson The joker in the pack?: Marlowe, Kyd and the co-authorship of Henry VI, Part 3 / John Burrows and Hugh Craig -- Rawlinson Poetry 160: the manuscript source of two attributions to Shakespeare / Gary Taylor -- Mine of debt: William White and the printing of the 1602 Spanish Tragedy ... with new additions / David L. Gants -- Shakespeare and three sets of additions / Hugh Craig -- Did Shakepeare write The Spanish Tragedy additions? / Gary Taylor -- Shakespeare and the painter's part / John V. Nance -- Thomas Middleton in All's Well that Ends Well? Part One / Rory Loughnane -- All's Well that Ends Well 4.3: dramaturgy / Terri Bourus and Farah Karim-Cooper -- Thomas Middleton in All's Well that Ends Well? Part Two / Rory Loughnane -- Middleton and the King's speech in All's Well that Ends Well / John V. Nance -- All's Well that Ends Well: text, date, and adaptation / Gary Taylor -- Shakespeare and Middleton: a chronology for 1605-6kson Roger Holdsworth -- The versification of Double Falsehood compared to restoration and early classical adaptations / Marina Tarlinskaja -- Using compressibility as a proxy for Shannon entropy in the analysis of Double Falsehood / Giuliano Pascucci -- The canon and chronology of Shakepeare's works / Gary Taylor and Rory Loughnane.
Summary:
"The companion volume to The new Oxford Shakespeare: the complete works concentrates on the issues of canon and chronology - currently the most active and controversial debates in the field of Shakespeare studies. It presents in full the evidence behind the choices made in The complete works about works Shakespeare wrote, in whole or part ..."--Jacket.
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