Trouble in the republic of letters: The reception of the Shakespeare forgeries.(Critical essay)

From: Studies in Romanticism | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Miles, Robert | Copyright information

Government and literature are now more than ever intimately connected.

--T. J. Mathias (1)

THE STORY OF WILLIAM HENRY IRELAND'S NOTORIOUS SHAKESPEARE FORGERIES has been told many times. It has been treated as a scandal of intrinsic interest; (2) as an important episode in the history of bardolatry; (3) and as a significant chapter in the history of literary forgery. (4) In this essay I want to look at the material again, from the perspective of its reception....

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