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SHAKESPEARE AND THE IDEA OF APOCRYPHA Inadditiontothethirty-sixplaysoftheFirstFolio,someeightyplays have been attributed in whole or part to William Shakespeare, yet mostarerarelyread,performedordiscussed.Thisbook,thefirstto confronttheimplicationsofthe‘ShakespeareApocrypha’,askshow andwhytheseplayshavehistoricallybeenexcludedfromthecanon. Innovatively combining approaches from book history, theatre history,attributionstudiesandcanontheory,PeterKirwanunveils thehistoricalassumptionsandprinciplesthatshapedtheconstruc- tion of the Shakespeare canon. Case studies treat plays such as Sir ThomasMore,EdwardIII,ArdenofFaversham,Mucedorus,Double Falsehood and A Yorkshire Tragedy, showing how the plays’ con- tested ‘Shakespearean’ status has shaped their fortunes. Kirwan’s book rethinks the impact of authorial canons on the treatment of anonymousanddisputedplays. peter kirwan is Assistant Professor of Shakespeare and Early ModernDramaattheUniversityofNottingham.Heistheco-editor of Shakespeare and the Digital World (with Christie Carson, Cambridge, 2014) and Associate Editor of William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays (2013). His work has appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Bulletin, Literature Compass, Philological Quarterly and many other journals and collections. He sits on the editorial board of Early Theatre and reviews editions for ShakespeareSurvey. SHAKESPEARE AND THE IDEA OF APOCRYPHA Negotiating the Boundaries of the Dramatic Canon PETER KIRWAN UniversityofNottingham UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107096172 ©PeterKirwan2015 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Kirwan,Peter. ShakespeareandtheideaofApocrypha:negotiatingtheboundaries ofthedramaticcanon/PeterKirwan. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-1-107-09617-2(hardback) 1. Shakespeare,William,1564–1616–Authorship. I. Title. pr2937.k56 2015 822.3ʹ3–dc23 2015008272 isbn978-1-107-09617-2Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. The leaning of sophists towards the bypaths of apocrypha isaconstantquantity,JohnEglintondetected.The highroadsaredrearybuttheyleadtothetown. 187 James Joyce, Ulysses, . Contents Listofillustrations pageix Acknowledgements x Introduction:theideaofApocrypha 1 Falsehoods 1 Newdirections 5 Thereturnoftheauthor 12 1 CanonisingtheApocrypha 15 The43-playcanon:1664–1734 18 Restoringreputations:1723–65 28 Biography,chronology,Bardolatry:1760–1844 36 CanonisingtheApocrypha:1780–1908 48 C.F.TuckerBrookeandthecanonising oftheApocrypha 66 2 TheApocryphainrep 72 Prodigalhusbandsandpatientwives 75 Absentkingsandcommonvoices 89 Romanceandnostalgia 98 Ensemblecomedy 106 Conclusions 111 3 Defining‘Shakespeare’ 115 TheShakespeareancorpse:physicaltracesofShakespeare 119 Samplesize,the‘problem’ofrevisionandLocrine 127 Theory‘versus’history 138 Theintegrationofdisintegration:EdwardIIIandArdenof Faversham 146 Conclusions 161 vii viii Contents 4 Apocryphisingthecanon 164 The[Bibliographic]CompleteWorksofShakespeare 169 The[Authorial]WorksofWilliamShakespeare[andThomas Middleton] 181 The[Performative]CompleteWorksofShakespeare 189 Conclusions 203 Epilogue:anapocryphalidentity 207 Appendix 215 Workscited 230 Index 253
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