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Show Famous Thatrlcal "Fake," A sceutecn-yeur-oW boy success-fully success-fully "faked" u Shakespeare, play, Ho wns William H. Ireland, 'who lived In Undon itboiit a century ago. Young Ireland tore tho fly leaves frpm old books, concocted an Ink that looked l'aded, and forged Shakespeare's signature signa-ture to o play that ho wrote to fool his father. Tho play was ftctttnlly presented lay the great netor, Kemble, nnd would have continued on Its own merits hnd not tho tragedian "horsed" tho lines, which ho llleved bogus. Roswell, Johnson's biographer, wab ono of tho literary men thnt "fell for" the fraud. |