Prologue: Gary Taylor finds a poem Part I. Donald Foster's 'Shakespearean' Construct: 1. 'W.S.' and the Elegye for William Peter 2. Parallels? Plagiarisms? 3. Vocabulary and diction 4. Grammar: 'the Shakespearean who' 5. Prosody, punctuation, pause patterns 6. Rhetoric: 'the Shakespearean hendiadys' 7. Statistics and inference 8. A poem 'indistinguishable from Shakespeare' Part II. John Ford's Funerall Elegye: 9. Ford's writing career: poet, moralist, playwright 10. Ford and the Elegye's 'Shakespearean diction' 11. The Funerall Elegye in its Fordian context Epilogue: the politics of attribution Appendices: 1. The text of A Funerall Elegye 2. Verbal parallels between A Funerall Elegye and Ford's poems 3. Establishing Ford's canon Bibliography.
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