Published critiques of the methods and attributions in the New Oxford Shakespeare Authorship Companion, a finding list, 6 July 2021.
* Items marked with an asterisk include discussions of claims that Marlowe was co-author of Henry VI, Parts Two and Three.
David B. Auerbach
‘Statistical Infelicities in The New Oxford Shakespeare Authorship Companion’, ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 33:1, 28-31, 2020.
* ‘Review: The New Oxford Shakespeare Authorship Companion’, ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 33:2-3, 236-241, DOI: 10.1080/0895769X.2019.1652556, 2020.
‘A Critique of Giuliano Pascucci’s Attribution Methods’, ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 33:2-3, 198-203, DOI: 10.1080/0895769X.2019.1660610, 2020.
‘“A cannon’s burst discharged against a ruinated wall”: A Critique of Quantitative Methods in Shakespearean Authorial Attribution’, Authorship, 7 (2), 2018.
Ros Barber
* ‘Big Data or Not Enough? Zeta Test Reliability and the Attribution of Henry VI’, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, fqaa041, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaa041, print publication forthcoming, 2021.
* ‘Function Word Adjacency Networks and Early Modern Plays’, ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 33:2-3, 204-213, DOI: 10.1080/0895769X.2019.1655631, 2020.
Darren Freebury-Jones
‘Unique Phrases and the Canon of Thomas Kyd’, Notes and Queries 67.2 (2020), 220-223.
‘Unsound Deductions in Early Modern Attribution: The Case of Thomas Watson’, American Notes and Queries 33.1 (2020), 164-171.
‘“When a man hath a familiar style”: An Introduction to Authorship Studies in Early Modern Drama and Literature’, American Notes and Queries 33.1 (2020), 112-121.
‘The Diminution of Thomas Kyd’, Journal of Early Modern Studies, 8 (2019), 251-277.
‘“Fearful Dreams” in Thomas Kyd’s Restored Canon’, Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 9.1 (2019).
‘Exploring Verbal Relations between Arden of Faversham and John Lyly’s Endymion’, Renaissance and Reformation, 41.4 (2018), 93-108.
‘In Defence of Kyd: Evaluating the Claim for Shakespeare’s Part Authorship of Arden of Faversham’, Authorship 7.2 (2018).
* ‘The Limitations of Microattribution’, with Marcus Dahl, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 60.4 (2018), 467-495
* ‘Augean Stables; Or, the State of Modern Authorship Attribution Studies’, essay-review of Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, and Gabriel Egan (eds), The New Oxford Shakespeare Archiv fuer das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 255.1 (2018), 60-81.
‘Kyd and Shakespeare: Authorship versus Influence’, Authorship 6.1 (2017).
* ‘Did Shakespeare Really Co-write 2 Henry VI with Marlowe?’, American Notes and Queries, 30.3 (2017), 137-141.
Pervez Rizvi
‘Shakespeare and Principal Components Analysis‘, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, fqaa050, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab013, print publication forthcoming, 2021.
‘The Use of the t-test in Shakespeare Scholarship‘, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, fqaa050,https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaa050, print publication forthcoming, 2021.
‘The Unsoundness of the Stylometric Case for Thomas Watson’s Authorship of Arden of Faversham’, American Notes and Queries online 13 September 2020, DOI: 10.1080/0895769X.2020.1815514 print publication forthcoming.
* ‘Authorship Attribution for Early Modern Plays using Function Word Adjacency Networks: A Critical View’, American Notes and Queries 33 (2020): 328-31.
‘Small Samples and the Perils of Authorship Attribution for Acts and Scenes’, American Notes and Queries 33 (2020): 32-3.
* ‘The Problem of Microattribution’, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 34, issue 3, September 2019, 606-615.
‘An Improvement to Zeta’, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 34, issue 2, June 2019, 419-422.
* ‘The Interpretation of Zeta Test Results’, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 34, issue 2, June 2019, 401-418.
Brian Vickers
‘Authorship Candidates for Arden of Faversham: Kyd, Shakespeare, and Thomas Watson’, Studies in Philology, Spring 2021.
‘Arden of Faversham, the Authorship Problem: Shakespeare, Watson, or Kyd?’, Digital Studies in the Humanities, 2021 DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqaa067.
* ‘Infecting the Teller. Rebutting a Mathematical Theory of Attribution’, Times Literary Supplement, 17 April 2020, pp. 14-15.
‘Kyd, Shakespeare, and Arden of Faversham: a (belated) reply to MacDonald Jackson’, Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama 56/57 (2020): 105-34.
“Kyd, Edward III, and ‘The Shock of the New’”, ANQ, 13 May 2019.
‘Is EEBO-TCP / LION Suitable for Attribution Studies?’, Early Modern Literary Studies 22:1, 2019.
“The ‘Dial Hand’ Epilogue: by Shakespeare, or Dekker?”, Authorship, December 2018.
‘Authorship attribution and Elizabethan drama: qualitative versus quantitative methods’, Authorship, December 2018.
‘Verbal repetition in Arden of Faversham: Shakespeare or Kyd?’, Notes and Queries 263, December 2018: 498-502.
‘Compositors’ spelling preferences and the integrity of 2 Henry VI‘, The Library, 2022.
The Complete Works of John Ford, Volume II and III (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 29 September, 2016), pp. 992. ISBN 9780198748878.
The One King Lear (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016), pp. 410. ISBN 9780674504844.
The Collected Works of John Ford, Volume I, edited by Gilles Monsarrat, Brian Vickers, and R. J. C.Watt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. xiv, 720. ISBN: 978-0-19-959290-6
Mächtige Worte. Antike Rhetorik und europäische Literatur, by Brian Vickers and Sabine Köllmann (Berlin: LIT-Verlag, 2008), partial translation of B23, with new material.
Shakespeare, ‘A Lover’s Complaint’, and John Davies of Hereford (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. xii, 329.
Shakespeare. The Critical Tradition. The Merchant of Venice, ed. by William Baker and Brian Vickers (London and New York; Continuum, 2004), pp. xli, 437. General Editor’s Preface, pp. ix–xli.
Shakespeare. The Critical Tradition. Coriolanus, 1687–1940, ed. by David George (London and New York; Continuum, 2004), pp. xxvi, 448. General Editor’s Preface, pp. viii–xxiii.
Shakespeare, Co-author. A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays (Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. xxix, 561. ISBN: 978-0-19-925653-2.
‘Counterfeiting’ Shakespeare. Evidence, Authorship, and John Ford’s Funerall Elegye (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. xxvii, 568.
Shakespeare. The Critical Tradition. Measure for Measure, 1783–1920, ed. by George Geckle (London and NJ: Athlone Press, 2001), pp. xxxvi, 382. General Editor’s Preface, pp. x–xxxiv.
English Renaissance Literary Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), Pp. xv, 675. ISBN: 978-0-19-818679-3
Shakespeare. The Critical Tradition. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1775–1920, ed. by Judith M. Kennedy and Richard F. Kennedy (London and NJ: Athlone Press, 1999), pp. xxi, 461. General Editor’s Preface, pp. x–xix.
Francis Bacon, The Essays and Counsels, Civil and Moral (The Folio Society, 2002).
Francis Bacon, The Essays and Counsels, Civil and Moral (Oxford World’s Classics, 1999): pp. xliii, 216.
Shakespeare. The Critical Tradition. Richard II, 1780–1920, ed. by Charles Forker (London and NJ: Athlone Press), pp. xviii, 593. General Editor’s Preface, pp. x–xv.
Francis Bacon, History of the Reign of King Henry VII (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. x, 281. (“Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought”).
Shakespeare. The Critical Tradition. King John, ed. by Joseph Candido (London and NJ: Athlone Press, 1996), pp. xvi, 415. General Editor’s Preface, pp. vi–ix.
Francis Bacon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. li, 813. (“Oxford World’s Classics”).
Francis Bacon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. li, 813. (“The Oxford Authors”).
Francis Bacon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. li, 813. (“The Oxford Authors”).
Francis Bacon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. li, 813.
Ripensare Shakespeare. Questioni di critica contemporanea (Milan, 2001). Italian translation of B27 by Mario Baccianini, Marina Merella, and Alessandra Di Luzio.
Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993), pp. xvi, 501. Paperback ed. 1994; repr. 1996.
Returning to Shakespeare (London: Routledge, 1989), pp. viii, 257.
Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry; second ed., with new Preface and additional bibliography (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989), pp. vii, 186.
Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry; second ed., with new Preface and additional bibliography (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989), pp. vii, 186.
Francis Bacon, German translation of B15 and A30 by Reinhard Kaiser (Berlin: Wagenbach, 1988), pp. 78.
Storia della retorica (Bologna: il Mulino, 1994), pp. 649. Italian translation of B23 by Rocco Coronato; introduction by Andrea Battistini.
In Defence of Rhetoric (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. xi, 508.
(Editor) English Science, Bacon to Newton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. xi, 244.
(Editor) English Science, Bacon to Newton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. xi, 244.
(Editor) Public and Private Life in the Seventeenth Century: The Mackenzie-Evelyn Debate (Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1986), pp. xlii, 277. – Introduction, pp. ix–xlii.
(Editor) Arbeit, Musse, Meditation. Betrachtungen zur Vita activa und Vita contemplativa (Zurich: Verlag der Fachvereine, 1985), pp. 307. – Introduction, pp. 1–19.
(Editor) Mentalidades ocultas y científicas en el Renacimento (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1990), pp. 318. Abridged Spanish translation of B19 by Jorge Vigil Rubio.
(Editor) Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. xiv., 408. – Introduction, pp. 1–55.
(Editor) Rhetoric Revalued. Papers from the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1981), pp. 281. – Introduction, pp. 13–39.
(Editor) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage. Volume 6. 1774–1801 (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981), pp. 650.
(Editor) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage. Volume 5. 1765–1774 (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979), pp. xvi, 569.
Francis Bacon (London: Longman, 1978), pp. 46; repr. in British Writers ed. I. Scott-Kilvert, Vol. 1 (New York: Scribner’s, 1979), pp. 257–74.
Shakespeare’s Coriolanus (London: Edward Arnold, 1976), pp. 68. (“Studies in English Literature” series).
(Editor) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage. Volume 4. 1753–1765 (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976), pp. xiv, 583.
(Editor) Hooker: The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. An Abridged Edition. Co-editor: A.S. McGrade (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976), pp. 413. Introduction 2: “Hooker’s Prose Style”, pp. 41–59.
(Editor) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage. Volume 3. 1733–1752 (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975), pp. xii, 487.
(Editor) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage. Volume 2. 1693–1733 (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974), pp. xi, 549.
(Editor) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage. Volume 1. 1623–1692 (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974), pp. xi, 448.
Towards Greek Tragedy (London: Longman, 1973), pp. xvi, 658; repr. 1979.
Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry (London: Macmillan, 1970), pp. 180.
(Editor) Seventeenth Century Prose: An Anthology (London: Longman, 1969), pp. 266.
(Editor) The World of Jonathan Swift (Oxford: Blackwell; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968), pp. ix, 273. – Introduction, pp. 1–24.
(Editor) Essential Articles for the Study of Francis Bacon (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972), pp. xxiii, 323. – Introduction, pp. xi–xxiii.
(Editor) Essential Articles for the Study of Francis Bacon (Hamden, CT: Archon Press, 1968), pp. xxiii, 323. English publication by Sidgwick & Jackson (London, 1972). – Introduction, pp. xi–xxiii.
The Artistry of Shakespeare’s Prose, Third Edition (London: Routledge, 2005), pp. vii, 452.
The Artistry of Shakespeare’s Prose, Revised Edition (London: Methuen, 1979), pp. x, 452.
The Artistry of Shakespeare’s Prose (London: Methuen, 1968), pp. ix, 452.
Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968), pp. xi, 316.
