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THE QUEST FOR SHAKESPEARE - JEFFREY KAHAN GEBUNDEN

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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