· Read "The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare A Tale of Forgery and Folly" by Doug Stewart available from Rakuten Kobo. In the winter of , a frustrated young writer named William Henry Ireland stood petrified in his father's study as tw Brand: Hachette Books. In "The Boy Who Would be Shakespeare" Doug Stewart tells the story of an 18th century teenager who forges minor and major works by Shakespeare so successfully that many believed the works to be genuine after William Henry Ireland had confessed to writing them himself/5(12). · Stewart writes very engagingly about the topic throughout his work, but one of the most interesting passages is his description of the opening (and closing) night performance of Vortigen, a play Ireland had duped many people into accepting as an undiscovered work by Shakespeare himself. The audience that night—2 April —was mixed with those who fervently believed they were about to Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.
The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare: A Tale of Forgery and Folly by Doug Stewart perhaps even more tragic was Samuel's unwillingness to believe his son had the talent to execute the forgery. Stewart's exhaustively researched examination of the Irelands' rise and fall is as entertaining as it is informative; modern readers, accustomed to. Stewart, Doug. The Boy who would be Shakespeare: A Tale of Forgery and Folly. Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, Samuel Schoenbaum's Shakespeare's Lives (for which, q.v.) writes in a very scholarly way about William-Henry Ireland, one of the great forgers of Shakespeareana the world has ever known. Doug Stewart tells the story in more detail. Doug Stewart, a writer living in Ipswich, Massachusetts, most recently published The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare: A Tale of Forgery and Folly (Da Capo Press ).
In "The Boy Who Would be Shakespeare" Doug Stewart tells the story of an 18th century teenager who forges minor and major works by Shakespeare so successfully that many believed the works to be genuine after William Henry Ireland had confessed to writing them himself. Doug Stewart’s The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare takes us back to an era when Shakespeare’s work and art was a subject that was on everyone’s mind. The story of William-Henry Ireland’s spectacular rise and fall, it captures our fascination with Shakespeare, the cult of celebrity, and our willingness, even eagerness, to be duped when there’s an opportunity to get a little closer to greatness. Stewart writes very engagingly about the topic throughout his work, but one of the most interesting passages is his description of the opening (and closing) night performance of Vortigen, a play Ireland had duped many people into accepting as an undiscovered work by Shakespeare himself. The audience that night—2 April —was mixed with those who fervently believed they were about to see a performance of a play lost for nearly two hundred years; those who, following Edmund Malone, the.
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