Reforging Shakespeare: The Story of a Theatrical Scandal by Jeffrey Kahan, Kitti Carriker

Reforging Shakespeare: The Story of a Theatrical Scandal

Jeffrey Kahan, Kitti Carriker

271 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

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Covers the story of William-Henry Ireland, a seventeen-year-old boy who, in 1795, fooled the academic and theatrical world with his Shakespeare forgeries. Kahan explores the forgeries in the light of eighteenth-century aesthetics, literary fraud a...

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