Author: Doug Stewart
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306819007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In the winter of 1795, a frustrated young writer named William Henry Ireland stood petrified in his father's study as two of England's most esteemed scholars interrogated him about a tattered piece of paper that he claimed to have found in an old trunk. It was a note from William Shakespeare. Or was it? In the months that followed, Ireland produced a torrent of Shakespearean fabrications: letters, poetry, drawings -- even an original full-length play that would be hailed as the Bard's lost masterpiece and staged at the Drury Lane Theatre. The documents were forensically implausible, but the people who inspected them ached to see first hand what had flowed from Shakespeare's quill. And so they did. This dramatic and improbable story of Shakespeare's teenaged double takes us to eighteenth century London and brings us face-to-face with history's most audacious forger.
The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare
Author: Doug Stewart
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306819007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In the winter of 1795, a frustrated young writer named William Henry Ireland stood petrified in his father's study as two of England's most esteemed scholars interrogated him about a tattered piece of paper that he claimed to have found in an old trunk. It was a note from William Shakespeare. Or was it? In the months that followed, Ireland produced a torrent of Shakespearean fabrications: letters, poetry, drawings -- even an original full-length play that would be hailed as the Bard's lost masterpiece and staged at the Drury Lane Theatre. The documents were forensically implausible, but the people who inspected them ached to see first hand what had flowed from Shakespeare's quill. And so they did. This dramatic and improbable story of Shakespeare's teenaged double takes us to eighteenth century London and brings us face-to-face with history's most audacious forger.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306819007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In the winter of 1795, a frustrated young writer named William Henry Ireland stood petrified in his father's study as two of England's most esteemed scholars interrogated him about a tattered piece of paper that he claimed to have found in an old trunk. It was a note from William Shakespeare. Or was it? In the months that followed, Ireland produced a torrent of Shakespearean fabrications: letters, poetry, drawings -- even an original full-length play that would be hailed as the Bard's lost masterpiece and staged at the Drury Lane Theatre. The documents were forensically implausible, but the people who inspected them ached to see first hand what had flowed from Shakespeare's quill. And so they did. This dramatic and improbable story of Shakespeare's teenaged double takes us to eighteenth century London and brings us face-to-face with history's most audacious forger.
Bibliotheca Heberiana. Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richard Heber, Esq. ... which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby and Son, at Their House, Wellington-street, Strand, on Thursday, April 10, and Twenty-five Following Days ...
Auction catalogue, books of Richard Heber, 10 to 20 February 1836
Author: R. H. Evans (London)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Autograph letters, chiefly illustrated with portraits ... on sale by John Waller
Author: John Waller (bookseller.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Catalog of Manuscripts of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Folger Shakespeare Library
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Bohemian Days in Fleet Street
Author: William Mackay (Journalist)
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Category : Journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Category : Journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold
Author: Horace Bleackley
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Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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The Illustrated London News
Catalogues of Sales
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Forty Years of 'Spy,'
Author: Sir Leslie Ward
Publisher: Castrovilli Giuseppe
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The author reflects on the notable people he met during his career as a caricaturist and portrait artist, including his work for Vanity Fair. Using the pseudonym "Spy," he published over 1300 portraits in the magazine.
Publisher: Castrovilli Giuseppe
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The author reflects on the notable people he met during his career as a caricaturist and portrait artist, including his work for Vanity Fair. Using the pseudonym "Spy," he published over 1300 portraits in the magazine.