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Culture & Legends

Strange stories from art, film, music, literature, sport and video games.

A recognisable geometric portrait of Shakespeare on a manuscript sheet beside a hand, quill and wax seal

The Play That Fooled London

A young clerk produced Shakespeare’s lost papers and an unknown play, until a disastrous London performance exposed the fiction behind a celebrated discovery.

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The Play That Fooled London

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