Brian Vickers (1) (1937–)

Author of In Defence of Rhetoric

For other authors named Brian Vickers, see the disambiguation page.

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Brian Vickers is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow in the School of Advanced Study, London University.

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In Defence of Rhetoric (1988) 49 copies

Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels (1993) 44 copies

Occult Scientific Mentalities (1984) — Editor — 36 copies

Shakespeare, Co-Author: A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays (2002) 19 copies

English Renaissance literary criticism (2000) 19 copies

'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare: Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall Elegye (2002) 18 copies

Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry (1970) 17 copies

William Shakespeare: Vol. 1, 1623-1692: The Critical Heritage (1974) — Editor — 16 copies

William Shakespeare: Vol. 3, 1733-1752: The Critical Heritage (1975) — Editor — 14 copies

William Shakespeare: Vol. 4, 1753-1765: The Critical Heritage (1976) — Editor — 14 copies

William Shakespeare: Vol. 5, 1765-1774: The Critical Heritage (1979) 13 copies

The One King Lear (2016) 12 copies

William Shakespeare: Vol. 6, 1774-1801: The Critical Heritage (1981) — Editor — 12 copies

William Shakespeare: Vol. 2, 1693-1733; The Critical Heritage (1974) — Editor — 10 copies

Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose (1968) 9 copies

William Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage (1996) 7 copies

Shakespeare, 'A Lover's Complaint', and John Davies of Hereford (2007) 6 copies

Essential articles for the study of Francis Bacon (The Essential article series) (1968) 6 copies

Towards Greek Tragedy: Drama, Myth, Society (1973) 5 copies

The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose (1979) 4 copies

English Science: Bacon to Newton (Cambridge English Prose Texts) (1987) 4 copies

Returning to Shakespeare (1989) 4 copies

Francis Bacon (1979) 3 copies

Rhetoric and the Pursuit of Truth: Language Change in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1985) 3 copies

Rhetoric Revalued: Papers from the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (1982) 2 copies

Seventeenth Century Prose. An Anthology. (1969) 2 copies

'Disintegrated' in TLS 5591, 28 May 2010 1 copy

'Idle Worship' in TLS 5342/3, 19 & 26 Aug 2005 [review of various bks about Shakespeare & authorship] 1 copy

Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" (Study in English Literature) (1976) 1 copy

'All rising to great place is by a winding stair ... being fair to Sir Francis Bacon' in TLS 4968, 19 June 1998 [review… 1 copy

Nashe, 1 Henry VI, and Silius Italicus [article] 1 copy

Verbal Repetition in Arden of Faversham: Shakespeare or Kyd? [article] 1 copy

A New Source for Sonnet 129 [article] 1 copy

William Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage Volume 2 1693-1733 (2013) 1 copy

Leisure and idleness in the Renaissance: The ambivalence of otium 1 copy

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The Essays (1597) — Editor, some editions — 2,254 copies

The Man of Feeling (1771) — Editor, some editions — 418 copies

The Major Works (1976) — Editor, some editions — 395 copies

Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent (2005) — Contributor — 100 copies

The text, the play, and the Globe : essays on literary influence in Shakespeare's world and his work in honor of… (2016) — Contributor — 6 copies

Words That Count: Essays on Early Modern Authorship in Honor of MacDonald P. Jackson (2004) — Contributor — 5 copies

The Collected Works of John Ford: Volume I (2012) — Editor — 4 copies

The Collected Works of John Ford: Volume IV (Oxford English Texts) (2023) — Editor, some editions — 2 copies

The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd: Volume One (2024) — Editor — 2 copies

2-3: The Collected Works of John Ford: Volume II and III (2017) — Editor, some editions — 1 copy

ANQ 33.2-3, April-September 2020 — Contributor — 1 copy

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Canonical name: Vickers, Brian
Legal name: Vickers, Brian William
Other names: Sir Brian Vickers
Birthdate: 1937-12-13
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: Cardiff, Wales, UK
Places of residence: Wales, UK
England, UK
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