Medieval and Early Modern Authorship (eBook)

Table of Contents 6
General Editor’s Preface 8
Acknowledgements 10
Introduction 12
Choosing Poetic Fathers:The English Problem - Helen Cooper 30
Authorship, Imitation, and Refusalin Late-Medieval England - Robert R. Edwards 52
The Tangled Thread of Authorship: Shakespeare’sJulius Caesar and Jonson’s Sejanus, His Fall - Lynn S. Meskill 76
The “author’s drift” in Shakespeare’sTroilus and Cressida: A Poetics of Reflection - Johann Gregory 94
Authorship from Homer toWordsworth via Milton - Neil Forsyth 108
Marvell’s Pronouns and theEthics of Representation - Stephen Hequembourg 126
“The forms of things unknown”:English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime - Patrick Cheney 138
Exchanging “words for mony”:The Parnassus Plays and Literary Remuneration - John Blakeley 162
Fictions of Collaboration: Authors and Editors inthe Sixteenth Century - Colin Burrow 176
Authorship and Alteration:Shakespeare on the Exclusion CrisisStage and Page, 1678-1682 - Emma Depledge 200
Portraiture, Authorship, and theAuthentication of Shakespeare - Julianna Bark 216
Producing the Lector - Rita Copeland 232
The Logic of Authorship in Chaucer’sTroilus and Criseyde - Stefania D’Agata D’Ottavi 252
Gestures of Authorship in Medieval EnglishHistoriography: The Case of RobertMannyng of Brunne - Nicole Nyffenegger 266
“By Auctorite of Experyence”: The Role ofTopography in Osbern Bokenham’sLives of Native Saints - Alice Spencer 278
Ethical Poetry, Poetic Theology:A Crisis of Medieval Authority? - Alastair Minnis 294
Notes on Contributors 310
Index of Names 316
A Note from the General Editor 326