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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.1543  Friday, 21 June 2002

[1]     From:   Christine Gilmore <pamphilia@earthlink.net>
        Date:   Thursday, 20 Jun 2002 14:23:24 -0400
        Subj:   Rosenbaum on Foster's Retake on the Authorship of A Funerall
Elegye

[2]     From:   Tad Davis <davist@voicenet.com>
        Date:   Thursday, 20 Jun 2002 20:49:53 -0400
        Subj:   Re: SHK 13.1533 Re: Abrams and Foster on "A Funeral Elegy"


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From:           Christine Gilmore <pamphilia@earthlink.net>
Date:           Thursday, 20 Jun 2002 14:23:24 -0400
Subject:        Rosenbaum on Foster's Retake on the Authorship of A Funerall
Elegye

The New York Observer has published an article, "Literary Sleuth
Absolves Bard of a Bad Poem," by Ron Rosenbaum discussing Foster's
recent statements about authorship of "A Funerall Elegye."  See
http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/frontpage2.asp

Here are the opening paragraphs:

"It will be interesting to see if The New York Times puts Donald
Foster’s astonishing retraction of his famous "Shakespearean discovery"
on the front page—the way the Times front-paged the professor’s original
claim. But Mr.  Foster’s remarkable reversal, and his remarkably
graceful admission of error—unreported in the press till now—is big news
with major implications not just for Shakespeareans, but for American
literary and media culture as well.

And I say this not merely because it vindicates my own long-standing and
lonely position (lonely at least in the U.S.), argued repeatedly in
these pages, that Mr. Foster was mistaken in his attribution of a long,
tedious and sententious 1612 poem called "A Funerall Elegye" to
Shakespeare. As I wrote five years ago in The Observer, the "unseemly
rush to certitude in America … will come to be seen as regrettable, even
embarrassing.""

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From:           Tad Davis <davist@voicenet.com>
Date:           Thursday, 20 Jun 2002 20:49:53 -0400
Subject: 13.1533 Re: Abrams and Foster on "A Funeral Elegy"
Comment:        Re: SHK 13.1533 Re: Abrams and Foster on "A Funeral Elegy"

Regarding the NY Times and its account of Abrams and Foster: Niederkorn,
of course, wrote the fatuous article on the case for Oxford-as-Bard in
the NY Times a few months ago. The tone and content of this new article
is even sillier: he appears to be under the impression that the
attribution of the Elegy to Shakespeare was one of the major props
holding up the whole Shakespeare-as-Bard edifice. To Niederkorn, the
"loss" of this attribution is a major victory, not for scholarly
integrity, but for.... Oxfordianism.

Tad Davis
davist@voicenet.com

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