The Quest for Shakespeare

The Peculiar History and Surprising Legacy of the New Shakspere Society

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European, British
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Author: Jeffrey Kahan ISBN: 9783319487816
Publisher: Springer International Publishing Publication: December 11, 2016
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author: Jeffrey Kahan
ISBN: 9783319487816
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication: December 11, 2016
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

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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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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