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The Quest for Shakespeare - The Peculiar History and Surprising Legacy of the New Shakspere Society (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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The Quest for Shakespeare - The Peculiar History and Surprising Legacy of the New Shakspere Society (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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This book traces the formation and impact of the New Shakspere
Society, created in 1873, which dedicated itself to solving the
mysteries of Shakespeare's 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.
Nonetheless, the New Shakspere Society set the bibliographical and
biographical agenda for the next century-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.
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