The great Shakespeare fraud
Subtitle: the strange, true story of William-Henry Ireland
By: Patricia Pierce
Publisher: Sutton
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Stroud
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780750933940
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Forgery; Literary forgeries and mystifications; Forgeries; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Here nature nurs'd her darling boy'; title: 'so stupid as to be a disgrace to his school'; title: 'swallowing with avidity the honied poison'; title: 'the gilded snare'; title: 'a witty conundrum'; title: 'these priceless relics now before me'; title: 'written by Shakespeare or the devil'; title: To believe or not to believe; title: A singular performance; title: 'Your young man is a prodigy one way or another'; title: 'The maddest of the mad'; title: 'That my character may be freed from the stigmas'.