1796 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1796.
Portrait of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
William Henry Ireland
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William Henry Ireland was an English forger of would-be Shakespearean documents and plays. He is less well known as a poet, writer of gothic novels and histories. Although he was apparently christened
1796 in literature
…Under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare (dated this year but actually produced on 24 December 1795). On 17 November, 1795 Ireland and his son William Henry had carried the papers to St James's Palace, where the Duke of Clarence and Dorothea Jordan examined them, and on 30 December,1795 Ireland submitted…
William Henry Ireland (1818)
A forgery of Shakespeare's signature by Ireland, c. 1795