Defining Shakespeare: Pericles as Test Case

Author:   MacDonald P. Jackson (, Professor of English, University of Auckland)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   268
Publication Date:   28 August 2003
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   MacDonald P. Jackson (, Professor of English, University of Auckland)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.581kg
ISBN:  

9780199260508


ISBN 10:   0199260508
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   28 August 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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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

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<br> This work exhaustively defends the case for the Oxford Shakespeare's editorial decision concerning Pericles.... Essential...to those concerned with textual scholarship. --Notes and Queries<p><br> 'There is, therefore, something at stake in decisions about the limits of the Shakespearean canon. This book shows how we can get them right.' This is a bold claim, but one borne out in the scrupulous methodologies that follow. --Studies in English Literature 1500-1900<p><br>


This work exhaustively defends the case for the Oxford Shakespeare's editorial decision concerning Pericles.... Essential...to those concerned with textual scholarship. --Notes and Queries<br> 'There is, therefore, something at stake in decisions about the limits of the Shakespearean canon. This book shows how we can get them right.' This is a bold claim, but one borne out in the scrupulous methodologies that follow. --Studies in English Literature 1500-1900<br>


Author Information

Mac Jackson is Professor of English at the University of Auckland. His publications include Shakespeare's 'A Lover's Complaint': Its Date and Authenticity (Auckland UP 1965), Studies in Attribution: Middleton and Shakespeare (Salzburg UP 1979). He is editor of A. R. D. Fairburn: Selected Poems (Victoria UP 1995) and Selected Poems of Eugene Lee-Hamilton (Edwin Mellen Press 2002), and is co-editor of The Selected Plays of John Marston (CUP 1986) and The Oxford Book of New Zealand Writing Since 1945 (OUP NZ 1986). He has contributed chapters to a further 16 books and has written over 150 articles for academic journals. He wrote the annual critical survey of Shakespeare editions and textual studies for Shakespeare Survey from 1984 to 1990.

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