Neologisms and non-Shakespearean words in a lover's complaint

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Volumn 245, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 288-302

  Jackson, Macdonald P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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References (42)

1. Warren D. Smith, "The Henry V Choruses in the First Folio", Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 53 (1954), 38-57, at pp. 55 and 56
2. Brian Vickers, Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint, and John Davies of Hereford (Cambridge, 2007). Hereafter straightforward page references to this book are incorporated into my text
3. J. W. Mackail, "A Lover's Complaint", Essays and Studies, 3 (1912), 51-70
4. See, for example, the following major editions: The Sonnets and "A Lover's Complaint", ed. John Kerrigan (Harmondsworth, 1986)
5. Shakespeare's Sonnets, ed. Katherine Duncan-Jones (London, 1997)
6. The Complete Sonnets and Poems, ed. Colin Burrow (Oxford, 2002)
7. and Critical Essays on Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint, ed. Shirley Sharon-Zisser (Aldershot, 2006)
8. There are good articles by Jennifer Laws, "The Generic Complexities of A Lover's Complaint and its Relationship to the Sonnets in Shakespeare's 1609 Volume", AUMLA, 89 (1998), 79-97
9. and Ilona Bell, "'That which thou hast done': Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint", in: Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays, ed. James Schiffer (New York, 1999), pp. 455-74
10. Alfred Hart, "Vocabularies of Shakespeare's Plays" and "The Growth of Shakespeare's Vocabulary", Review of English Studies, 19 (1943), 128-40 and 242-54
11. Also important was Hart's earlier "Shakespeare and the Vocabulary of The Two Noble Kinsmen", Review of English Studies, 10 (1934), 274-87
12. Hart, "Kinsmen", p. 278
13. Hart, "Vocabularies", p. 129
14. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare-Lexicon, 2 vols., revised Gregor Sarrazin (Berlin, 1902)
15. "Vocabularies", p. 138
16. MacD. P. Jackson, Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint: Its Date and Authenticity (Auckland, University of Auckland, Bulletin 71 English Series, 1965)
17. Kenneth Muir independently came to the same conclusions in "'A Lover's Complaint': A Reconsideration", in Shakespeare 1564-1964: A Collection of Modern Essays by Various Hands, ed. Edward A. Bloom (Providence, RI, 1964), pp. 154-66
18. Jürgen Schäfer, Documentation in the OED: Shakespeare and Nashe as Test Cases (Oxford, 1980)
19. Shakespeares Stil: Germanisches und romanisches Vokabular (Frankfurt am Main, 1973)
20. Early Modern English Lexicography, 2 vols (Oxford, 1989). In this article my figures and calculations from Schäfer are taken from Documentation
21. Bryan Garner, "Shakespeare's Latinate Neologisms", Shakespeare Studies, 15 (1982), 149-70
22. repr. in: A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama, ed. Vivian Salmon and Edwina Burness (Amsterdam and Philadelphia, 1987), pp. 207-28; my references are to this reprint
23. William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Compact Edition, gen. eds. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1988), p. 783
24. But references to Shakespeare's plays and poems are, following Garner, to The Riverside Shakespeare, ed. G. Blakemore Evans (Boston, 2nd ed., 1997)
25. Marvin Spevack, A Complete and Systematic Concordance to the Works of Shakespeare, 8 vols (Hildesheim, 1968-1975)
26. Hart, "Growth", p. 249
27. A. K. Hieatt, T. G. Bishop, and E. A. Nicholson, "Shakespeare's Rare Words: 'Lover's Complaint', Cymbeline, and Sonnets", Notes and Queries, 232 (1987), 219-24, argue that Shakespeare began the poem around 1600-03 but did not finish working on it until he prepared it for inclusion in the 1609 Sonnets Quarto
28. Schäfer, Documentation, pp. 87-136. My figures from "Schäfer" all derive from this list
29. The total of 61 is in almost exact agreement with that of Donald W Foster, Elegy by W. S.: A Study in Attribution (Newark, NJ, 1989), p. 94. Hart's tables lump A Lover's Complaint and The Phoenix and the Turtle together with the Sonnets and (probably) The Passionate Pilgrim
30. Ward E. Y. Elliott and Robert J. Valenza, "And Then There Were None: Winnowing the Shakespeare Claimants", Computers and the Humanities, 30 (1996), 191-245
31. "Glass Slippers and Seven-League Boots: C-Prompted Doubts About Ascribing A Funeral Elegy and A Lover's Complaint to Shakespeare", Shakespeare Quarterly, 48 (1997), 177-207
32. "The Professor Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks: Problems with the Foster 'Response'", Computers and the Humanities, 32 (1999), 425-90
33. "Oxford by the Numbers: What Are the Odds That the Earl of Oxford Could Have Written Shakespeare's Poems and Plays?", Tennessee Law Review, 72 (2004), 323-45
34. "Did Shakespeare Write A Lover's Complaint?: The Jackson Ascription Revisited", in: Words That Count: Essays on Early Modern Authorship in Honor of MacDonald P. Jackson, ed. Brian Boyd (Newark, NJ, 2004), pp. 117-58
35. Elliott and Valenza, "Glass Slippers", p. 191
36. Elliott and Valenza, "Did Shakespeare", p. 119
37. and "Glass Slippers", p. 192
38. Robert J. Valenza, "Are the Thisted-Efron Authorship Tests Valid?", Computers and the Humanities, 25 (1991), 27-46, p. 38
39. Elliott and Valenza, "Oxford by the Numbers", pp. 427-8, 431
40. Some reservations about other Elliott-Valenza tests are expressed in MacD. P. Jackson, "A Lover's Complaint Revisited", Shakespeare Studies, 22 (2004), 267-94, at pp. 268-71
41. MacD. P. Jackson, "A Lover's Complaint, Cymbeline, and the Shakespeare Canon: Interpreting Shared Vocabulary", Modern Language Review, 103 (2008), 621-38
42. A different category of evidence that points clearly to Shakespeare's authorship of the poem is set forth in my "The Authorship of A Lover's Complaint: A New Approach to the Problem", Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 102 (2008), at press