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Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle
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Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle Hardcover - 2006

by Penny McCarthy


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An investigation into modes of early modern English literary 'indirection, ' this study could also be considered a detective work on a pseudonym attached to some late sixteenth-century works. In the course of unmasking 'R.L.', McCarthy scrutinizes devices employed by writers in the Sidney coterie: punning, often across languages; repetitio-insistence on a sound, or hiding two persons 'under one hood'; disingenuous juxtaposition; evocation of original context; differential spelling (intended and significant). Among McCarthy's stunning-but solidly underpinned-conclusions are: Shakespeare used the pseudonym 'R.L.' among other pseudonyms; one, 'William Smith', was also his 'alias' in life; Shakespeare was at the heart of the Sidney circle, whose literary programme was hostile to Elizabeth I; and his work, composed mainly from the late 1570s to the early 90s, occasionally 'embedded' in the work of others, was covertly alluded to more often than has been recognized

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  • Title Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle
  • Author Penny McCarthy
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, Hampshire
  • Date 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780754655084 / 0754655083
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005017267
  • Dewey Decimal Code 820.900

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  • Choice, 10/01/2006, Page 300

About the author

Penny McCarthy took her MA and D. Phil. at Sussex University, and now holds an honorary research fellowship with the University of Glasgow, UK.
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