The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.1620  Thursday, 11 July 2002

From:           John D. Cox <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date:           Wednesday, 10 Jul 2002 12:27:53 -0400
Subject:        Attributing Masterworks

Anyone interested in attributing poems and plays to Shakespeare will be
interested in today's New York Times article about attributing a drawing
to Michelangelo:  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/10/arts/10MICH.html.
Parallels in attributing across the arts are obvious, but no one that I
know of would answer a question about a claim regarding Shakespearean
attribution the way Sir Timothy Clifford answered a reporter's question
about his claim that the drawing in question is by Michelangelo:  "It
was just as I recognize a friend in the street or my wife across the
breakfast table."

John Cox
Hope College

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