Reforging Shakespeare · the Story of a Theatrical Scandal
- Authors
- Kahan, Jeffrey & Carriker, Kitti
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press
- ISBN
- 9780934223553
- Date
- 1998-12-31T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.07 MB
- Lang
- en
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.