Series I, Chapter 14: Hypothetical, Spurious, and False Shakespeare
Hypothetical: Love's Labour's Won, Cardenio
Spurious: Hecate passages in Macbeth
False Attributions: "The Passionate Pilgrim," Arden of Feversham, "Shall I Die?" A Funeral Elegy
Notes:
References are to the following:
F.E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964 (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1964), pp. 289, 83–84, 491–92;
Jonathan Bate, “Is there a lost Shakespeare in your attic?” in The Telegraph, April 21, 2007, accessed 8/13/18 at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3664626/Is-there-a-lost-Shakespeare-in-your-attic.html;
G. Blakemore Evans, Note on the Text of Macbeth, in The Riverside Shakespeare, Second Ed., (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997), pp. 1387–88;
Frank Kermode, Introduction to Macbeth in the same Riverside edition, pp. 1355–56;
Hallett Smith, Introduction to The Passionate Pilgrim in The Riverside Shakespeare, p. 1881;
MacDonald P. Jackson, Determining the Shakespeare Canon: Arden of Faversham and A Lover’s Complaint (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014);
MacDonald P. Jackson, “Shakespeare and the Quarrel Scene in “Arden of Faversham,” Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Autumn, 2006), pp. 249–93;
Arden of Feversham, ed. Ronald Bayne (London: J.M. Dent, 1897) reproduced on line and accessed (8/21/18) at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43440/43440-0.txt;
Gary Taylor, “Shakespeare’s New Poem: A Scholar’s Clues and Conclusions,” New York Times, December 15, 1985, accessed 8/21/18 at https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/15/books/shakespeare-s-new-poem-a-scholar-s-clues-and-conclusions.html;
Donald Foster, Letter to the New York Times, January 19, 1986, accessed on 8/21/18 at https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/19/books/l-a-new-shakespeare-poem-238486.html;
G.D. Monsarrat, “A Funeral Elegy: Ford, W.S., and Shakespeare” in The Review of English Studies New Series, Vol. 53, No. 210 (May, 2002), pp. 186-203, accessed 8/21/18 at https://www.jstor.org/stable/3070371?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents;
William S. Niederkorn, “A Scholar Recants on His ‘Shakespeare’ Discovery,” New York Times, August 21, 2002, accessed 8/21/18 at https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/arts/a-scholar-recants-on-his-shakespeare-discovery.html.
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