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...Leading Lights in Eighteenth Century Shakespearian Drama," Professor Sprague, Harvard...
...into crime, a young professor follows the footsteps of an international investigator into the secret underworld of Trinidad. Tagging along through mangrove swamp and sudden death, he learns the jest of murder and the intrigue of politics. DRURY LANE'S LAST CASE-Barnaby Ross-Viking ($2). All the Shakespearian lore of Drury Lane is necessary to explain the theft and return of a rare volume from a museum. Mixed identity and murder place in the action, as does a vital clue dated four centuries ago. The motive is explained after the solution is reached, and the supreme greatness...
What else is left for the Sophomore President, the Junior President, the Senior President, and all their co-incumbents to do? I think this is an excellent time to abolish an outgrown sinecure. Henceforth let us bouquet our friends, not with ballots, but with the Heroic Couplet and the Shakespearian Sonnet if need be! Eugene Du Bois...
...Collection of the originals of the Ireland forgeries, the well-known literary fraud of the eighteenth century, have recently been acquired by the Harvard College Library. These papers comprise the most famous and the most successful of Shakespearian forgeries, and include both letters which purported to be in his handwriting and pages of the manuscripts of his plays. The author of the forgeries, William Henry Ireland, published them in 1796, claiming to have discovered them in his attic. For a while the forgeries were accepted as authentic by leading authorities to whom Ireland submitted them for examination, but eventually pressure...
...originally included among the forgeries but which is not in the Library collection, called "Vortigen" was produced at the Globe Theatre in London, where, on the opening night, it was greeted by laughter. If "Vortigen" had been successful Ireland planned to bring forth a whole series of allegedly Shakespearian plays. As it was, the production of the play only contributed to the disclosure of the hoax...