The Great Shakespeare Fraud: The Strange, True Story of William-Henry Ireland

Pierce, Patricia
Publication Date 2004
ISBN 9780750933933
Publisher Sutton,
Binding Hardcover
Condition Near fine, bright copy in like dust wrapper
SKU 7127
Notes Very clean, bright and neat.

Description

Hardback. 273pp. Very entertaining true crime; a literary forgery like Thomas Chatterton. William Henry-Ireland forges Shakespeare items beginning with a deed and continuing with letters and poems and even a play Vortigern and Rowena. Fooling literary London Ireland even persuades Sheridan to stage Vortigern before the forgery is uncovered. Small selection of black and white plates.
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