The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 19.0152 Friday, 7 March 2008
From: Tom Reedy <
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Date: Saturday, 01 Mar 2008 10:31:26 -0600
Subject: 19.0143 Shakespeare's Style
Comment: Re: SHK 19.0143 Shakespeare's Style
Jim Carroll wrote:
>Most attributionists seem to make the same
>mistake: they make a list of things that one text has
>in common with one author, while ignoring the
>same attributes in other authors.
He then goes on to give us a list of the appearance in Shakespeare of
the word "countenance" to support his attribution of Titus 1.1 to
Shakespeare, while ignoring all the other things that Titus has in
common with Peele's works.
In his *Shakespeare, Co-Author,* (Oxford UP, 2002) Sir Brian Vickers
includes a list of parallels of language and thought noted by Wilson,
Hart, and himself, not only to Peele's other works, but also parallels
of Shakespeare's other works compared to his part of the play;
calculations from Parrott and Timberlake of feminine endings, which are
compared to averages from both Shakespeare and Peele's other works;
examples of classical vocabulary as used in Peele's and Shakespeare's
works; comparisons of rhetorical figures of Titus and LLL drawn from
Hill's study of Elizabethan rhetoric; studies by Macdonald Jackson on
compound adjectives and the un-prefix in Titus that clearly distinguish
the two authors in the play; Jackson's vocabulary list of rare words,
which discriminates between the two authors; Tarlinskaja's stress
profiles, which show a clear difference between the two authors,
assigning a more archaic rhythmical style to the scenes not by
Shakespeare; tables of abstract nouns, function words, verbal formulae,
polysyllabic words, alliterations, vocatives, feminine endings, metrics,
etc., as well as examples of historical criticism claiming the play was
only partly by Shakespeare.
While Jim is correct that these are lists, their depth and number argue
convincingly for Peele's authorship of 1.1, 2.1, 2.2 and 4.1 of Titus.
I would urge anyone interested in this topic to wade through
humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare and find the nine discussion threads
titled "The Battle of Alcazar." I have posted the entire play for
comparison with Titus.
Tom Reedy
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