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The boy who would be Shakespeare : a tale of forgery and folly /
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 Shakespea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Da Capo Press,
2010.
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| Edición: | 1st Da Capo Press ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 peopl. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (229 pages, [16] pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780306819001 0306819007 |