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Albeit with some tentativeness. See David Bevington, ed., The Complete Works of Shakespeare, updated 4th ed. (New York: Longman, 1997); G. Blakemore Evans, with J. J. M. Tobin, eds., The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997); and Stephen Greenblatt et al., eds., The Norton Shakespeare (New York: Norton, 1997).

Article by Stephanie Caruana, Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter, Spring, 1996.

Professor Donald Foster, TLS, 29 Mar. 1996, p. 17.

Professor Richard Abrams, Univ. of Southern Maine, TLS, 22 Mar. 1996, p. 17.

Ford as a likely author was first publicly mentioned in a TLS review (6 July 2001, p. 27) of Foster's Author Unknown by Brian Vickers, Professor of English Literature at the Centre for Renaissance Studies, Zurich. Three independent studies identifying the poem as Ford's work were pending: "Between them they put the issue beyond dispute", Vickers later asserted (TLS, 10 Aug. 2001, p. 15). His own book, Counterfeiting Shakespeare (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002), has recently appeared. Foster's subsequent acceptance of Ford's likely authorship was reported in the New York Times, 26 June 2002, p. E3.

Vick Bennison contributed this viewpoint in an e-mail (13 Aug. 2001) to the Editor of SHAKSPER: The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference <http://www.shaksper.net/ archives/2001/1969.html>.

Prefacing the poem and addressed to Master John Peter of Bowhay in Devon, Esq.

Dedications addressed to the Earl of Southampton, the poems printed by Richard Field in 1593 and 1594 respectively.

Foster, Elegy, p. 75.

Stanley Wells, Director of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham, in "The difficulties of attributing `A Funeral Elegy' to Shakespeare", TLS 26 Jan. 1996, p. 28.

"Whose Thumbprints? A more plausible author for `A Funeral Elegy' ", Brian Vickers, TLS, 8 Mar. 1996, p. 16.

Abrams, TLS, 9 Feb. 1996, p. 25.

See Jill M. Farringdon et al., Analysing for Authorship (Cardiff: Univ. of Wales Press, 1996), and a brief introduction at <http://members.aol.com.qsums>.

Jillian Farringdon and Michael Farringdon, "Literature and Computers", Poetry Wales, 17.1 (Summer, 1981), 53-60.

Morton's purpose was to investigate the authorship of the New Testament, a task which he has now completed (see The Making of Mark [Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 1996] and The Gathering of the Gospels [Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 1997]).

See John Worthen, The Gang (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2001), for attribution of "The Barberry Tree"; and Farringdon et al., Analysing, for the other studies mentioned here.

See Farringdon et al., Analysing, Chapters 8 and 9.

Professor A. F. Bissell introduced a useful addition to any analysis, through the use of "weighted cusums" and a t-test.

A matter of no small annoyance to the real Lord Chief Justice.

Sir Kenneth Dover is a past Master of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, past President of the British Academy, and former Chancellor of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

Farringdon et al., Analysing, "A Note on Linguistics", pp. 45-48.

Jill Farringdon was awarded the Hoffman prize for 1997 for her submission "Attributing Marlowe and Shakespeare".

In the course of an attribution study made of Hamilton and Madison it has proved possible to attribute even a single sentence: see A. Q. Morton and M. G. Farringdon, "Fielding and the Federalist", University of Glasgow research report, 1990.

Analysing for Authorship, p. 301.

Don Foster, Author Unknown (NY: Henry Holt and Co., 2000).

Further work is proceeding on this unexpected finding, with a possible author for the Elegye dedication under consideration.