Discovered: A New Shakespeare Sonnet (or three, actually)

ISBN-13: 9781514750407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 58 str.

Gilbert Wesley Purdy

Opis

Late in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I an anthology of pirated poems was published in London. It was almost immediately called in by the authorities. Only a tiny number of copies still exist. Among the pirated poems were anonymous songs and sonnets, one of which fits the profile, established and fine-tuned by centuries of scholars, for Shakespeare attribution like no other candidate for the past 300 years. Discovered: A New Shakespeare Sonnet follows the trail of people and events that resulted in the publication of the anthology and documents the perfunctory treatment of the text by 19th century and early 20th century scholars who saw no reason to investigate it at length. Next it closely inspects the 16th century texts to uncover the existence of a poem that bears a stunning relationship to the works of Shakespeare. Statistical tables, close textual comparisons and related commentaries are provided in this book. All make clear the unmistakable authorial hand of William Shakespeare.