{"id":7109,"date":"2013-04-23T16:37:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T16:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webblogtest.utc.edu\/library\/?p=7109"},"modified":"2013-09-26T08:20:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T12:20:34","slug":"happy-birthday-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/2013\/04\/23\/happy-birthday-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Will!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Collections holds several items and collections related to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shakespeare\">William Shakespeare<\/a>, whose 449th birthday (and date of death) is today (some accounts give the birth date as April 26). We have two plays, <i>The Twelfth Night<\/i> and <i>Timon of Athens<\/i>, printed in 1632 and excised from a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Folio of Shakespeare\u2019s works.\u00a0 We also have several dozen 18<sup>th<\/sup> and 19<sup>th<\/sup> century etchings of various scenes from Shakespeare\u2019s plays, some printed on silk.<\/p>\n<p>One item of interest, though, is an 1805 book titled <i>The Confessions of William Henry Ireland<\/i>.\u00a0 Upon looking at the title page and the illustration you can see there is a connection to Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/09\/special-collections-william-henry-ireland.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2870\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2870\" title=\"William Henry Ireland\" alt=\"William Henry Ireland\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/files\/2013\/04\/William-Henry-Ireland-300x255.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Henry_Ireland\">William Henry Ireland<\/a> (1775-1835) was the son of a British Shakespeare collector and an antiquities dealer, who hoped to impress his father by \u201cdiscovering\u201d documents involving Shakespeare, particularly those bearing Shakespeare\u2019s signature, which were rare even in the late 1700s. Ireland began by forging simple documents, which his father believed were real, and then went on to \u201cdiscover\u201d the original manuscripts of several plays, like <i>Hamlet<\/i>.\u00a0 He eventually went one step further and \u201cdiscovered\u201d an unknown Shakespeare play, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vortigern_and_Rowena\"><i>Vortigern and Rowena<\/i><\/a>.\u00a0 Even though there were skeptics as to the authenticity of this play (other appraisers suggested could be an early Shakespeare work), the play was produced and performed in 1796 by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drury_Lane_theatre\">Drury Lane Theatre<\/a> in London.\u00a0 The play was literally laughed off the stage at its premier and shortly thereafter Ireland admitted the whole thing was a hoax.\u00a0 Ireland\u2019s father, however, was not convinced the play was a forgery, perhaps believing his twenty-year-old son was not smart enough to write an entire play by himself.\u00a0 In 2008, however, the play was again produced and performed by the Pembroke Players at Pembroke College at Cambridge, with the full knowledge that the play was not an authentic Shakespeare play.\u00a0 <i>The Confessions of William Henry Ireland <\/i>was published in London by Ellerton and Byworth, for Thomas Goddard, and the Special Collections\u2019 copy, a first edition, is part of the Charles Hubbard Collection acquired several years ago by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/09\/special-collections-confessions-of-william-henry-ireland.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2873\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2873\" title=\"Confessions of William Henry Ireland\" alt=\"Confessions of William Henry Ireland\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/files\/2013\/04\/DSCN1008-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday to the Bard!\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing phony about his other plays\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Collections holds several items and collections related to William Shakespeare, whose 449th birthday (and date of death) is today (some accounts give the birth date as April 26). We have two plays, The Twelfth Night and Timon of Athens, printed in 1632 and excised from a 2nd Folio of Shakespeare\u2019s works.\u00a0 We also&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/2013\/04\/23\/happy-birthday-will\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":415,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4922],"tags":[10711],"class_list":{"0":"post-7109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-special-collections","7":"tag-rare-books","8":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Happy Birthday, Will! - UTC Library Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Happy Birthday, Will! - UTC Library Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Special Collections holds several items and collections related to William Shakespeare, whose 449th birthday (and date of death) is today (some accounts give the birth date as April 26). 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