Gibson The Shakespeare Claimants

A Critical Survey of the Four Principal Theories concerning the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-56181-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

This edition first published in 1962.

The Shakespeare Claimants is a critical survey of the great controversy that has raged over the authorship of the Shakespearean plays. It provides the general reader with an outline history of this controversy and with a full description and analysis of the main anti-Stratfordian arguments. This book concentrates on the four main claimants: Bacon, Oxford, Derby and Marlowe.

The book contains an extensive bibliography and footnotes to guide the reader through the text.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibson, H. N

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Theories and Theorists

2. Denigration of an actor

3. The case for Francis Bacon

4. The case for the Oxford Syndicate

5. The case for Lord Derby

6. The case for Christopher Marlowe

7. Parallelism and the 'Promus'

8. Shakespeare's scholarship and covabulary

9. Metamorphoses of the sonnets

10. 'Richard II' and the missing link

11. The hidden hand in 'As You Like It'

12. The Northumberland MS

13. The feudal aristocrat

14. Portraits and monuments

15. Four miscellaneous topics

16. A tug-of-war with the first folio

17. Vice versa

18. Confusions and conclusions