Phrase lengths in Henry VIII Shakespeare and Fletcher

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Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-80

  Jackson, MacD P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 84863187448     PISSN: 00293970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nq/44.1.75     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. James Spedding, 'Who Wrote Shakespeare's Henry VIII?', Gentlemans Magazine, xxxiv(1850), 115-23, 381-2;
2. Samuel Hickson, 'A Confirmation of Mr. Spedding's Paper on the Authorship of Henry VIII', N&Q, ii (1850), 198, 401-3, and iii (1851), 33-4,
3. Spedding's and Hickson's contributions were reprinted in Transactions of the New Shakspere Society, i (1874).
4. Independently of Spedding, Ralph Waldo Emerson, in a lecture published in Representative Men (1850)
5. noted and characterized two styles in Henry VIII. Documentation of the authorship debate is provided in Evidence for Authorship, ed David V. Erdman and Ephim G Fogel (Ithaca, 1966), 457-78,
6. and Linda McJ. Micheli, 'Henry VIII'. An Annotated Bibliography (New York, 1988), ix-xiii, 103-29
7. G. Wilson Knight's claims were made in The Crown of Life (Oxford, 1947).
8. Cyrus Hoy, 'The Shares of Fletcher and his Collaborators in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon (VII)', Studies in Bibliography, xv (1962), 71-90.
9. Hoy's meticulous series of articles in Studies in Bibliography, beginning with viii (1956), represented a major breakthrough in research into the authorship of English Renaissance plays.
10. Gary Taylor, 'The Canon and Chronology of Shakespeare's Plays', in Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor with John Jowett and William Montgomery, William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion (Oxford, 1987), 133-4.
11. Robert Boyle, 'Henry VIII: An Investigation into the Origin and Authorship of the Play', Transactions of the New Shakspere Society, viii-x (1886), 443-87;
12. H. Dugdale Sykes, Sidelights on Shakespeare (Stratford-upon-Avon, 1919), 18-47.
13. Marco Mincoff made this point strongly in 'Henry VIII and Fletcher', Shakespeare Quarterly, xii (1961), 239-60.
14. Thomas B. Horton, 'Distinguishing Shakespeare from Fletcher through Function Words'. Shakespeare Studies, xxii (1994), 314-35;
15. Jonathan Hope, The Authorship of Shakespeare's Plays (Cambridge, 1994), 67-83;
16. Hope's main data had been presented and analysed in mathematical detail in 'Applied Historical Linguistics: Socio-Historical Linguistic Evidence for the Authorship of Renaissance Plays', Transactions of the Philological Society, lxxxviii (1990), 201-26.
17. Several early studies of sentence length are discussed by C. B. Williams in his Style and Vocabulary: Numerical Studies (London, 1970).
18. The strong metrical association of II.i with Fletcher is demonstrated by, for example, Charles A. Langworthy, 'A Verse-Sentence Analysis of Shakespeare's Plays', PMLA, xlvi (1931), 738-51;
19. Ants Ores, '"Extra Monosyllables" in Henry VIII and the Problem of Authorship', JEGP, iii (1953), 198-213;
20. Robert A. Law, 'The Double Authorship of Henry VIII', Studies in Philology, lvi (1959), 471-86.
21. Regulation rates for auxiliary do in Henry VIII are most fully treated by Hope in 'Applied Historical Linguistics' (1990) and Authorship (1994), as in n. 6 above.
22. Henry VIII, ed. Fredson Bowers, in The Dramatic Works of the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon, VII (Cambridge, 1989), 3-20.