{"product_id":"9783319487809","title":"The Quest for Shakespeare: The Peculiar History and Surprising Legacy of the New Shakspere Society","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Quest for Shakespeare: The Peculiar History and Surprising Legacy of the New Shakspere Society\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eKahan, Jeffrey\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book traces the formation and impact of the New  Shakspere Society, created in 1873, which dedicated itself to solving the  mysteries of Shakespeare’s authorship by way of science. This promise,  however, was undermined not only by the antics of its director, Frederick J.  Furnivall, but also by the inexactitudes of the tests. Jeffrey Kahan puzzles  out how a society geared towards science quickly devolved into a series of  grudge matches.  Nonetheless, the New  Shakspere Society set the bibliographical and biographical agenda for the next  century—an unusual legacy for an organization that was rife with intrigue,  enmity, and incompetence; lives were ruined, lawyers consulted, and  scholarship (mostly bad) produced and published. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2016-12-20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783319487809\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-319-48781-6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 164\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47694156857484,"sku":"9783319487809","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783319487809_56b89b80-4245-4269-be7a-0ffac6e035b2.jpg?v=1776774556","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783319487809","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}