Doug Stewart

Monstrous Manual (AD&D 2nd Ed Fantasy Roleplaying Accessory, 2140)

Discusses the forgeries of William Henry Ireland, who produced letters, poetry, and a full-length play attributed to William Shakespeare, and describes the antiquarian fad culture that embraced the forgeries.

A Tale of Forgery and Folly

The Boy who Would be Shakespeare

Gary Gygax

This fundamental monster reference for every Dungeon Master provides complete game information for over 600 monsters, presented in an easy-to-use format along with over 300 pieces of fantasy art.

Monstrous Manual

The McClellans and Allied Families

British Union-catalogue of Periodicals--Supplement to 1960

In the winter of 1795, a frustrated young writer named William Henry Ireland stood petrified in his father's study as two of England's most esteemed scholars interrogated him about a tattered piece of paper that he claimed to have found in an old trunk. It was a note from William Shakespeare. Or was it? In the months that followed, Ireland produced a torrent of Shakespearean fabrications: letters, poetry, drawings—even an original full-length play that would be hailed as the Bard's lost masterpiece and staged at the Drury Lane Theatre. The documents were forensically implausible, but the people who inspected them ached to see first hand what had flowed from Shakespeare's quill. And so they did. This dramatic and improbable story of Shakespeare's teenaged double takes us to eighteenth century London and brings us face-to-face with history's most audacious forger.

Doug Stewart

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