The Quest for Shakespeare: The Peculiar History and Surprising Legacy of the New Shakspere Society

by Jeffrey Kahan

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319840118
• ISBN13: 9783319840116
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"