The Greatest Shakespeare Hoax

[admin tim]

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Greatest-Shakespeare-Hoax.html

Maybrick diary fans of all stripes may like this article on how someone fooled too many people too much of the time when imitating the Bard. And it was a pencil-necked pimply teenager to boot!

[Caroline Morris]

Here's another teenaged forger - with a fatal arsenic connection to boot...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Chatterton

I saw the painting of young Tom C at Tate Britain yesterday and thought of this thread.

Love,

Caz
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