Words that Count: Essays on Early Modern Authorship in Honor of MacDonald P. Jackson

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University of Delaware Press, 2004 - 291 pages
These essays by leading scholars of early modern attribution, editing, theater, and versification (including Andrew Gurr, Gary Taylor, and Brian Vickers) focus on questions of authorship, authority, and ownership in Marlowe, Peele, Shakespeare, Middleton, Webster and others. Some essays take MacDonald P. Jackson's pioneering work in these fields a stage further, by looking at the critical consequences; others develop new methods, principles, or theoretical positions in determining authorship; still others use new data to extend or challenge Jackson's findings. the University of Auckland.

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Contents

Tribute to MacDonald P Jackson
11
The Great Divide of 1594
29
Aaron in Titus Andronicus
51
The Troublesome Raigne George Peele and the Date
78
Shakespeare Write A Lovers Complaint? The Jackson
117
Not Shakespeare
141
Othello King Lear and the Sacralization
161
The Pattern of Collaboration in Timon of Athens
181
The Structure of The White Devil
209
Stage Directions
222
Thomas Middleton The Spanish Gypsy and Collaborative
241
A Bibliography
274
Notes on Contributors
281
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Page 125 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Page 110 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and beeing an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey.
Page 68 - And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. 2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
Page 63 - And so I was; which plainly signified That I should snarl and bite and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shaped my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another And not in me: I am myself alone.
Page 68 - And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.
Page 177 - If any man serve me, let him follow me ; and where I am, there shall also my servant be : If any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Page 163 - STAND fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Page 163 - For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman : likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant. 23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. 24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
Page 68 - This is it that the LORD spake, saying, " I will be sanctified in them that ' come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glori' fied."

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