'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare; Evidence, Authorship, and John Ford's Funerall Elegye, Brian Vickers book review
- Authors: Birkinshaw, Catherine
- Date: 2004
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/457498 , vital:75643 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48033
- Description: 'Counterfeiting'Shakespeare; Evidence, Authorship, and John Ford's Funerall Elegye. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 568 pp. Reviewed by CATHARINE BIRKINSHAW' Counterfeiting' Shakespeare is Brian Vickers's magisterial summing up of the debates over two dubious Shakespearean attributions. The first is the notorious" Shall I die?", Gary Taylor's discovery, that he and Stanley Wells included in the Oxford Complete Works (1986).
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- Date Issued: 2004
King Henry VI 3, John D. Cox and Eric Rasmussen eds.: book review
- Authors: Birkinshaw, Catherine
- Date: 2003
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/457698 , vital:75671 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48011
- Description: This edition of 3 Henry VI includes a newly edited modernised version of the 1623 Folio text and a reduced photographic facsimile of the Octavo version of the play, called The true Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henrie the Sixt, and published in 1595.
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- Date Issued: 2003
" Past the wit of Man": A Midsummer Night's Dream's debt to Praise of Folly
- Authors: Birkinshaw, Catherine
- Date: 1992
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/457711 , vital:75672 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA1011582X_129
- Description: There have been several attempts to explore Shakespeare's debt to Erasmus, notably Waiter Kaiser's in Praisers of Folly (1964), which concentrates on the figure of Falstaff. But on account of the Christian-Classical tradition both writers share, and on account also of Erasmus's widespread influence in the sixteenth century, direct borrowing is generally hard or impossible to prove.
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- Date Issued: 1992