Job Triumphant in His Trial and The Woodman's Bear
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.

Computational, handwriting, and other types of evidence proves that Josuah Sylvester ghostwrote famous dramas and poetry, including the first "William Shakespeare"-bylined book Venus and Adonis (1593), the "Robert Greene"-bylined Orlando Furioso (1594) and the two "Mary Sidney"-assigned translations of Antonie (1592) and Clorinda (1595). Sylvester is also the ghostwriter behind famously puzzling attribution mysteries, such as the authorship of the anonymous "Shakespeare"-apocrypha Locrine (1595), and behind controversial productions such as the "Cyril Tourneur"-bylined Atheist's Tragedy (1611). All of the famous texts that Sylvester ghostwrote have previously been modernized and annotated. In contrast, most of Sylvester's many volumes of self-attributed works have remained unmodernized and thus inaccessible to modern scholars. This neglect is unwarranted since under his own name, Sylvester served as the Poet Laureate between 1606-12 under James I's eldest son, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. This volume addresses this scholarly gap by translating two works that capture Sylvester's central authorial tendencies.
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Job Triumphant in His Trial and The Woodman's Bear
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.

Computational, handwriting, and other types of evidence proves that Josuah Sylvester ghostwrote famous dramas and poetry, including the first "William Shakespeare"-bylined book Venus and Adonis (1593), the "Robert Greene"-bylined Orlando Furioso (1594) and the two "Mary Sidney"-assigned translations of Antonie (1592) and Clorinda (1595). Sylvester is also the ghostwriter behind famously puzzling attribution mysteries, such as the authorship of the anonymous "Shakespeare"-apocrypha Locrine (1595), and behind controversial productions such as the "Cyril Tourneur"-bylined Atheist's Tragedy (1611). All of the famous texts that Sylvester ghostwrote have previously been modernized and annotated. In contrast, most of Sylvester's many volumes of self-attributed works have remained unmodernized and thus inaccessible to modern scholars. This neglect is unwarranted since under his own name, Sylvester served as the Poet Laureate between 1606-12 under James I's eldest son, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. This volume addresses this scholarly gap by translating two works that capture Sylvester's central authorial tendencies.
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Job Triumphant in His Trial and The Woodman's Bear

Job Triumphant in His Trial and The Woodman's Bear

Job Triumphant in His Trial and The Woodman's Bear

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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.

Computational, handwriting, and other types of evidence proves that Josuah Sylvester ghostwrote famous dramas and poetry, including the first "William Shakespeare"-bylined book Venus and Adonis (1593), the "Robert Greene"-bylined Orlando Furioso (1594) and the two "Mary Sidney"-assigned translations of Antonie (1592) and Clorinda (1595). Sylvester is also the ghostwriter behind famously puzzling attribution mysteries, such as the authorship of the anonymous "Shakespeare"-apocrypha Locrine (1595), and behind controversial productions such as the "Cyril Tourneur"-bylined Atheist's Tragedy (1611). All of the famous texts that Sylvester ghostwrote have previously been modernized and annotated. In contrast, most of Sylvester's many volumes of self-attributed works have remained unmodernized and thus inaccessible to modern scholars. This neglect is unwarranted since under his own name, Sylvester served as the Poet Laureate between 1606-12 under James I's eldest son, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. This volume addresses this scholarly gap by translating two works that capture Sylvester's central authorial tendencies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781681145983
Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
Publication date: 05/13/2023
Series: British Renaissance Re-Attribution and Modernization , #20
Pages: 202
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

Josuah Sylvester (1563-1618) is behind classics such as the first text misassigned to “William Shakespeare”, Venus and Adonis, according to BRRAM’s computational-linguistics. Sylvester was Prince Henry’s Court Poet, but his self-attributed works are ignored due to his open Judaism.

Anna Faktorovich, PhD, is an English professor, and author of Rebellion as Genre and Formulas of Popular Fiction. She is the Director and Founder of Anaphora Literary Press.
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