Recent literary scholarship has seen a shift of interest away from questions of attribution. This book is the first comprehensive survey of the field from a literary perspective to appear for forty years. Written with wit and erudition, this book will make this intriguing field accessible for students and scholars.
Recent literary scholarship has seen a shift of interest away from questions of attribution. This book is the first comprehensive survey of the field from a literary perspective to appear for forty years. Written with wit and erudition, this book will make this intriguing field accessible for students and scholars.
Harold Love is Professor of English at Monash University. He has written extensively on early modern English literature and the history of the performing arts in Australia.
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Abbreviations Illustrations Introduction Acknowledgements 1. Individuality and sameness 2. Historical survey 3. Defining authorship 4. External evidence 5. Internal evidence 6. Stylistic evidence 7. Gender and Authorship 8. Craft and science 9. Bibliographical evidence 10. Forgery and attribution 11. Shakespeare and Co. 12. Arguing attribution Bibliography Index.