Shakespeare's queer 'Sonnets' and the forgeries of William Henry Ireland. (William Shakespeare) From: Criticism | Date: March 22, 1998| Author: Keevak, Michael | COPYRIGHT 1998 Wayne State University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

William Henry Ireland created a series of Shakespearean forgeries that were believed by the public in 1795. Ireland's collection of false documents included legal deeds, receipts, and letters from and to Shakespeare. Such documents were late 18th-century versions of what the poet should have been like. Ireland wrote a more Protestant Profession of Faith to counteract the Catholic one left by the poet's father.

In 1795 a young man named William Henry Ireland, then about eighteen ye...

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