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The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare: A Tale of Forgery and Folly
by
Doug Stewart
In the winter of 1795, a frustrated young writer named William Henry Ireland stood petrified in his fathers most audacious forger.
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
March 23rd 2010
by Da Capo Press
(first published 2010)
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Absolutely fascinating and interesting. How do you make an unusual detective story interesting? There was no real crime, but lives were disrupted. The author does a good job making what could easily, in the hands of most others, be dull tale. The book is as interesting a tale about the times (about 1795) as it is about the deed itself, with a little bit about Shakespeare and the London theatre thrown in as well. He paints a very different picture about what probably happened than one gets from m...more
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Very interesting book about a late 18th-century kid who began forging Shakespeare documents to impress his distant father and ended up first celebrated and then reviled. Stewart's writing is fast-paced and his viewpoint sympathetic towards all the characters, even to those who were so desperate to dupe themselves. A different take on William-Henry Ireland than in any of the recent bios of Shakespeare or nonfic about the forgeries. Quick & entertaining nonfiction fix.
Non-Fiction - This was pretty slow and took me awhile to read, especially because I was reading right before bed and would get tired. I at first thought it was a book about Shakespeare as a youth, but it is actually about a boy who forged Shakespeare documents in the 1800's. Something I didn't know. It was interesting and I like occasionally to read something non-fiction.
I had to start this book twice. What a great story about how a young guy who not only forged but to the length he took his forgeries.. Hopefully, no one falls for anything so extreme today.
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Not as in-depth as I would have liked, but an interesting story about life and forgery in Georgian England.
Got halfway through and I've got to return it. May check it out again. I want to finish as it is an intriguing story.
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