The Shakespeare Controversy : An Analysis of the Authorship Theories, 2d ed.

Hope, Warren/ Holston, Kim

McFarland & Co Inc（2009/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 260 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786439171
• DDC分類 822.33

Full Description

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.

Contents

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