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基本説明
Examines rival theories about the quarto's origins and offers compelling evidence that Pericles is the product of collaboration between Shakespeare and the minor dramatist George Wilkins.
Full Description
'That very great play, Pericles', as T. S. Eliot called it, poses formidable problems of text and authorship. The first of the Late Romances, it was ascribed to Shakespeare when printed in a quarto of 1609, but was not included in the First Folio (1623) collection of his plays. This book examines rival theories about the quarto's origins and offers compelling evidence that Pericles is the product of collaboration between Shakespeare and the minor dramatist George Wilkins, who was responsible for the first two acts and for portions of the 'brothel scenes' in Act 4. Pericles serves as a test case for methodologies that seek to define the limits of the Shakespeare canon and to rdentify co-authors. A wide range of metrical, lexical, and other data is analysed. Computerized 'stylometric' texts are explained and their findings assessed. A concluding chapter introduces a new technique that has the potential to answer many of the remaining questions of attribution associated with Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Contents
List of Tables ; List of Figures ; Preface ; Abbreviations and References ; 1. Defining Shakespeare ; 2. Introduction to Pericles and the Shakespeare canon ; 3. Pericles: evidence of dual authorship ; 4. Identifying the author of Pericles, Acts 1 and 2 ; 5. A literary-critical approach to style in Pericles ; 6. Wilkins as co-author: the case summarized and defended ; 7. A new technique for attribution studies ; Appendix 1: The text of Pericles ; Appendix 2: 'Literature Online' data ; Index