- Title
- A collaboration about a collaboration: the authorship of King Henry VI, Part Three
- Creator
- Craig, Hugh; Burrows, John
- Relation
- Collaborative Research in the Digital Humanities: A Volume in Honour of Harold Short, on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday and his Retirement, September 2010 p. 27-65
- Relation
- https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=9969&edition_id=10279
- Publisher
- Ashgate
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- Not one of the plays included in Heminge and Condell's First Folio, Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (1623) has ever been successfully 'de-attributed' in its entirety from that author's dramatic corpus. But the consensus of modern scholars is that several of the plays are to some extent collaborative. Among these, no other has presented scholars interested in attribution with such intractable problems as the one there entitled The third Part of Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Duke of Yorke. The problems are relieved for some scholars but exacerbated for others by the existence of another version (or perhaps another play) published in Octavo in 1595 as The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henry the Sixt .. . . We shall take the Folio text as the basis of our inquiry because its inclusion there justifies an initial hypothesis that Shakespeare had a part in its authorship. In attempting a fresh investigation, in a volume honouring the work of Harold Short, we follow his admirable example in collaborative scholarship and draw such advantage as we can from our many years of working with each other. We even considered representing the actual evolution of the present article by couching it as a dialogue, but hardly knew which words to put in whose mouth. We certainly did not care to take Plato as a model. Which of us would dare assume the role of Socrates? Which of us would endure the role of those hapless interlocutors who are now and then allowed a 'Pray, do continue', a 'Please explain', or even a mildly presumptuous 'Well said!'?
- Subject
- William Shakespeare; authorship; King Henry VI, Part Three
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1053436
- Identifier
- uon:15589
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781409410683
- Language
- eng
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