Shakespeare's literary authorship

Abstract

Introduction: 'Printless foot': finding Shakespeare Part I. Rethinking Shakespearean Authorship: 1. The epic spear of Achilles: self-concealing authorship in The Rape of Lucrece, Troilus and Cressida, and Hamlet 2. The forms of 'counter-laureate authorship': Titus Andronicus, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1 Henry IV, The Tempest 3. Lyric poetry in Shakespearean theatre: As You Like It, 1 Henry IV, Henry V, The Tempest 4. Books and theatre in Shakespeare's plays: Richard III, Love's Labour's Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Othello Part II. Fictions of Authorship: 5. 'Shows of love ... bookish rule': theatre, book, and literary history in 2 Henry IV 6. Halting sonnets: the comedy of Petrarchan desire in Much Ado about Nothing 7. The profession of consciousness: Hamlet, tragedy, and the literary eternal 8. Venting rhyme for a mockery: Cymbeline and national romance.