The Quest for Shakespeare

The Quest for Shakespeare PDF

Author: Jeffrey Kahan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-11

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 3319487817

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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.

The New Shakspere Society's Transactions, 1877-9, Vol. 2

The New Shakspere Society's Transactions, 1877-9, Vol. 2 PDF

Author: P. A. Daniel

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-08

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780656073757

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Excerpt from The New Shakspere Society's Transactions, 1877-9, Vol. 2: A Time Analysis of the Plots of Shakspere's Plays: I. Comedies; II. Tragedies; III. Histories You said our work should cease. The time, therefore, for the whole action would be, according to Prospero and Ariel, little more than four hours. The testimony of Alonzo and the Boatswain is, however, some what at variance with this estimate of time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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