LONDON -
Feb. 12, 2023 -
PRLog -- Volumes 15-17 are from "Part II: Attribution Mysteries" of the series with evidence to re-attribute the "William Cavendish"-bylined
Variety comedy to Benjamin Jonson, the "Samuel Brandon"-bylined
Virtuous Octavia tragicomedy to Gabriel Harvey, and variedly-bylined (including pieces from "Shakespeare"
, "Raleigh" and "Dyer") verse in an anthology to William Byrd. And Volumes 18-20 are from "Part III: The Self-Attributed Texts of the Ghosts" that translates and introduces texts that prove these ghostwriters' style or writerly patterns match those of the other bylines in their groups. Part III covers Richard Verstegan's first Old English dictionary and Anglo-Saxon mythology-foundation,
A Restitution for Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities (1605), Gabriel Harvey's Latin (and now translated into English for the first time) satire about pseudonyms,
Smith: Or, The Tears of the Muses (1578) and Josuah Sylvester's first and only verse English translation of the
Book of Job and the absurd fantasy
Woodman's Bear (1620).
Sections out of BRRAM have been published in scholarly journals: "Manipulation of Theatrical Audience-Size"
,
Critical Survey, Spring 2022; "'Michael Cavendish's' 14 Airs in Tablature to the Lute",
East-West Cultural Passage, December 2022;
Journal of Information Ethics: "Publishers and Hack Writers: Signs of Collaborative Writing in the 'Defoe' Canon" (Fall 2020) and "Falsifications and Fabrications in the Standard Computational-
Linguistics Authorial-Attribution Methods" (Spring 2022). The computational data, handwriting comparisons across bylines, and diagrams:
https://github.com/faktorovich/Attribution.
Benjamin Jonson's The Variety (1649): A fragmentary comedy about the corruption of the judicial and monarchical systems in charge of granting aristocratic titles based on appearance instead of merit.
Gabriel Harvey's The Tragicomedy of the Virtuous Octavia (1598): The first English self-labeled "tragicomedy"
about Octavia's failed attempts to win back her inconstant husband, Antony, from his Egyptian lover, Cleopatra, and to prevent her brother, Octavius, from waging retaliatory war on Antony and Cleopatra.
A Comparative Study of Byrd Songs: A comparative anthology of all of the variedly-bylined texts in William Byrd's linguistic-group, with scholarly introductions that solve previously impenetrable literary mysteries.
Richard Verstegan's A Restitution for Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities (1605): The launch of Britain's "Anglo-Saxon"
origin-myth and the first Old English etymological dictionary.
Gabriel Harvey's Smith: Or, The Tears of the Muses (1578): A poetic satire of ghostwriters being hired to write puffery
of and
by patrons and sponsors, who pay to gain immortal fame for being "great", while failing to perform any work to deserve any praise.
Josuah Sylvester's Job Triumphant in His Trial and The Woodman's Bear (1620): The first verse English translation of the
Book of Job, and a fantasy epic poem about the woeful love between the Woodman and the Bear.
Series Information:
https://anaphoraliterary.com/attribution
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