Research Catalog

Title

Shakespeare, co-author : a historical study of five collaborative plays / Brian Vickers.

Author

Vickers, Brian.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Details

Description

xvii, 558 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 shares 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."--Jacket.

Subject

• Andronicus, Titus (Fictitious character)
• Playwriting > History
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Authorship
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [542]-551) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. I. Elizabethan Drama and the Methodology of Authorship Studies -- 1. Authorship in English Renaissance Drama -- 2. Identifying Co-Authors -- Pt. II. Shakespeare as Co-Author -- 3. Titus Andronicus with George Peele -- 4. Timon of Athens with Thomas Middleton -- 5. Pericles with George Wilkins -- 6. Henry VIII and the Two Noble Kinsmen with John Fletcher -- 7. Plot and Character in Co-Authored Plays: Problems of Co-Ordination -- App. I. Pause Patterns in Elizabethan Drama -- App. II. Abolishing the Author? Theory versus History.

ISBN

• 0199256535
• 0199269165 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2002031262

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library