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  • Fakespeare (2013 Television)

    Series
    Crackanory
    Director
    Richie Pengelley

    Storytelling. Kevin Eldon reads What Do You Say?, a twisted tale about a man driven to insanity by a repetitive stranger. In Fakespeare, written by Toby Davies and narrated by Rebecca Front, a writer of...

  • Arthur Phillips Takes on the Bard (2011 Multimedia, Radio)

    In this radio interview, presenter Kurt Andersen talks to novelist Arthur Phillips about his book The Tragedy of Arthur, in which the novelist fakes an entire Shakespeare play.

  • Shakespeare’s Vortigern and Rowena (2010 Radio)

    Series
    Afternoon Play
    Director
    Marc Beeby
    Producer
    Marc Beeby

    Radio play written by Melissa Murray and directed for broadcasting by Marc Beeby. In 1796, Richard Sheridan (Lorcan Cranitch), playwright and owner of the Drury Lane theatre stages a ‘lost’ Shakespeare...

  • Shakespeare (2005 Radio)

    Series
    Faking the Classics
    Producer
    Sara Jane Hall

    Two-part radio series in which Jonathan Bate examines how the works of Shakespeare and Mozart have been forged. Part 1 discusses Shakespeare. Since Shakespeare’s death his works have been given alleged...

  • Another Shakespeare (2000 Radio)

    Series
    Afternoon Play
    Director
    Cherry Cookson

    Radio drama by Martyn Wade. Based on a true story, William Ireland was an unhappy child, born in the 18th century, who wanted to impress his brutal father. He wrote, and then claimed to have discovered,...

  • Ireland Forgeries, The (1947 Radio)

    Producer
    William Hughes

    Radio play by Kenneth Bird about the story of William Ireland, whose Shakespeare forgeries caused a considerable stir in literary circles at the end of the 18th century.

  • Quiet Please Murder (1943 Film)

    Director
    John Larkin
    Producer
    Ralph Dietrich

    Wartime thriller starring George Sanders in which he plays a forger who steals Richard Burbage’s personal copy of Shakespeare’s Hamlet from a library and then sells copies of it to collectors through an...

  • William Ireland’s Confession (1939 Radio)

    Series
    Columbia Workshop
    Director
    Stephen Potter

    Radio drama by Arthur Miller about the Shakespeare forger William Henry Ireland. Ireland’s ghost narrates the story.

  • Fast and Loose (1939 Film)

    Director
    Edwin L. Marin
    Producer
    Frederick Stephani

    Detective film. Nick Torrent (Morgan) owns a scrap of a priceless Shakespeare manuscript and wants to sell it; but then he is murdered and the manuscript is stolen. Joel Sloane (Montgomery) is a rare book...