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1790s

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

Case file 010Culture & Legends

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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