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Edmund Malone & the Shakespeare Hoax, 1794-1796
The story of one of the greatest cause célèbre’s of the Georgian Age, orchestrated by William Henry Ireland, and blown apart by Edmund Malone, the preeminent Shakespearean scholar of the day ... but not until Boswell, Sheridan and other leading lights of the period had proved themselves suckers.