Shakespeare, 'A Lover's Complaint', and John Davies of Hereford by Brian Vickers

Shakespeare, 'A Lover's Complaint', and John Davies of Hereford by Brian Vickers

When Shakespeare's Sonnets were published in 1609 a poem called A Lover's Complaint was included by the publisher, Thomas Thorpe, who was notorious for several irregular publications. Many scholars have doubted its authenticity, but recent editions of the Sonnets have accepted it as Shakespeare's work. Now Vickers, in this text, the first full study of the poem, shows it to be un-Shakespearian both in its language and in its attitude to women. It is awkwardly constructed and uses archaic Spenserian diction, including many unusual words that never occur in Shakespeare. It frequently repeats stock phrases and rhymes, distorts normal word order far more often and more clumsily than Shakespeare did, while its attitude to female frailty is moralizing and misogynistic. By close analysis Vickers attributes the poem to John Davies of Hereford (1565-1618), a famous calligrapher and writing-master who was also a prolific poet. Vickers' book will re-define the Shakespeare canon.

Review of the hardback: '… a brilliant piece of detective work by the scholar Brian Vickers has strongly suggested that ['A Lover's Complaint'] was actually by a Herefordshire writing-master and Shakespeare groupie called Sir John Davies' Telegraph.co.uk
Review of the hardback: 'It's hardly possible not to be convinced (swept away even) by the thoroughness and passion of Vickers's argument. I'm happy to acknowledge myself a convert. … An invaluable section of the book demonstrates the degree to which Shakespeare's alleged linguistic innovations can be found all over the place in that 'remarkably fruitful period of linguistic expansion' in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.' Shakespeare Survey

Brian J.Vickers (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is an assistant editor of the Southern Baptist Journal of Theology and a professor of New Testament interpretation and biblical theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is actively interested in short-term mission missions and international teaching. He is also a member of the Institute for Biblical Research and the Evangelical Theological Society.

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ISBN 13	9780521349611
ISBN 10	0521349613
Titel	Shakespeare, 'A Lover's Complaint', and John Davies of Hereford
Autor	Brian Vickers
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2011-07-14
Seitenanzahl	342
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