The Quest for Shakespeare : the Peculiar History and Surprising Legacy of the New Shakspere Society / by Jeffrey Kahan.
Kahan, Jeffrey, author.
2017
PN715-PN749
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Title The Quest for Shakespeare : the Peculiar History and Surprising Legacy of the New Shakspere Society / by Jeffrey Kahan.
Author Kahan, Jeffrey, author.
ISBN 9783319487816
3319487817
9783319487809
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48781-6
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 164 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-48781-6 doi
Call Number PN715-PN749
Dewey Decimal Classification 822/.33
Summary This book traces the formation and impact of the New Shakspeare 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: a new society
chapter one: squabbles
chapter two: skirmishes
chapter three: war
chapter four: remembrance
chapter five: inheritance
bibliography
index.

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