02486nam 22004575 450 991015529390332120230810190807.03-319-48781-710.1007/978-3-319-48781-6(CKB)3710000000974366(DE-He213)978-3-319-48781-6(MiAaPQ)EBC4769045(EXLCZ)99371000000097436620161211d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Quest for Shakespeare The Peculiar History and Surprising Legacy of the New Shakspere Society /by Jeffrey Kahan1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (XXVII, 164 p.) 3-319-48780-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.introduction: a new society -- chapter one: squabbles -- chapter two: skirmishes -- chapter three: war -- chapter four: remembrance -- chapter five: inheritance -- bibliography -- index.This book traces the formation and impact of the New Shakspeare 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.European literatureRenaissance, 1450-1600European literatureEarly Modern and Renaissance LiteratureEuropean LiteratureEuropean literatureRenaissance, 1450-1600.European literature.Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.European Literature.809Kahan Jeffreyauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut886725BOOK9910155293903321The Quest for Shakespeare1980366UNINA