“A Funeral Elegy” is no longer considered to be Shakespeare’s work. It was, for a short time in the late 1990s, thought to have been written by Shakespeare. The poem was included in the Shakespeare 2020 Project because the Project took its reading list from the Riverside Shakespeare (Second Edition), which was published in 1997 and includes the poem.
Here are some resources to help guide your way into “A Funeral Elegy”:
- The January 14, 1996 New York Times article declaring the likelihood that Donald Foster had proven that “A Funeral Elegy” was written by Shakespeare.
- The June 20, 2002 New York Times article reporting that Donald Foster had recanted his own work.
- Listen to a complete reading of “A Funeral Elegy.”
- Read “A Funeral Elegy” on MIT’s Complete Works of William Shakespeare.