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The Quest For Shakespeare - ENG

The Peculiar History And Surprising Legacy Of The New Shakspere Society

Jeffrey Kahan

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ISBN:	9783319487816
Formato:	Page Fidelity
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Springer Nature
Tema:	Crítica literaria
Subtema:	Europea inglesa, irlandesa, escocesa, galesa
Año de publicación:	2016-12-11

This book traces the formation and impact of the New Shakspere Society, created in 1873, which dedicated itself to solving the mysteries of Shakespeare authorship by way of science. This promise, however, was undermined not only by the antics of its director, Frederick J. Furnivall, but also by the inexactitudes of the tests. Jeffrey Kahan puzzles out how a society geared towards science quickly devolved into a series of grudge matches.Â Nonetheless, the New Shakspere Society set the bibliographical and biographical agenda for the next centuryâ€”an unusual legacy for an organization that was rife with intrigue, enmity, and incompetence; lives were ruined, lawyers consulted, and scholarship (mostly bad) produced and published.Â

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