Reforging Shakespeare: The Story of a Theatrical Scandal
Lehigh Univ Pr | 1998 | ISBN: 0934223556 | 271 pages | PDF | 2.1MB
Lehigh Univ Pr | 1998 | ISBN: 0934223556 | 271 pages | PDF | 2.1MB
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 and detection.