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While sorting through information for my last post, I stumbled on a book by Jeffery Kahan • Shakespeare imitations, parodies and forgeries, 1710-1820. The book clocks in at 1188 pages (all three volumes combined). For the pleasure of its company, you can expect to pay $8.04 per page. And that’s marked down from the book’s original $9,999.00 price tag. That’s so stupidly high (and, no, Kahan’s commentary is not worth $9,900) that I have generously provided texts for all but two of the book’s plays. And, by the way, Kahan, like me, doesn’t find any evidence to support Shakespeare’s hand in The Double Falsehood.
Volume 1
The Tragedy of Jane Shore Written in Imitation of Shakespear’s Style • Nicholas Rowe
The Revenge • Edward Young
The Double Falsehood • Lewis Theobald
The Miller of Mansfield • Robert Dodsley
Edward the Black Prince • William Shirley
Volume 2
The Earl of Essex. Written in Imitation of Shakespear’s Style (1753) Henry Jones
Douglas. Written in Imitation of Shakespeare’s Style (1756) John Home
Edgar and Emmeline. A Comedy in Two Acts (1761) Dr John Hawkesworth
Falstaff’s Wedding, A Comedy in the imitation of Shakespere (1766) William Kenrick
The Earl of Warwick (1766) Dr Francklin
Henry II, or the Fall of Rosemond (1773) Thomas Hull
Volume III
Vortigern, A Tragedy in Five Acts (1796)
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Henry II, an Historical Drama (1796) William-Henry Ireland
De Monfort (1800) Joanne Baillie
Brutus; or The Fall of Tarquin (1818) John Howard Payne
