EN 3620 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: William Henry Ireland
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En3620: using a bibliograph(cid:455) isn"t alwa(cid:455)s useful when stud(cid:455)ing shakespeare as there is a lot of. Early publications: the quartos, the earliest texts of william shakespeare"s works were published during the 16th and 17th centuries in quarto or folio format. Folios are large, tall volumes; quartos are smaller, roughly half the size: plays are published separately and were sometimes pirated, not all shakespeare"s pla(cid:455)s e(cid:454)ist in quarto. Shakespeare as cultural capital: during 1794-95, william henry ireland (infamous) forged numerous documents supposedly written by and to shakespeare, and even an entirely new play. In 1926, england tried to prevent the soviets from participating in celebrating.
