The more interesting publications on the Ireland forgeries are:Inquiry into the authenticity of certain Papers, &c., attributed to Shakespeare, by Edmond Malone (1796); the elder Ireland’sVindication of his Conduct(1796);An Apology for the Believers in the Shakespeare Papers(1797), and aSupplemental Apology(1799), both by George Chalmers; and pamphlets by Boaden, Waldron, Wyatt, Webb and Oulton.Vortigernwas republished in 1832. The elder Ireland’s correspondence with regard to the forgeries is preserved in the British Museum, with numerous specimens of his son’s talent. Ireland’s career supplied the subject-matter of James Payn’s novelThe Talk of the Town(1885).
The more interesting publications on the Ireland forgeries are:Inquiry into the authenticity of certain Papers, &c., attributed to Shakespeare, by Edmond Malone (1796); the elder Ireland’sVindication of his Conduct(1796);An Apology for the Believers in the Shakespeare Papers(1797), and aSupplemental Apology(1799), both by George Chalmers; and pamphlets by Boaden, Waldron, Wyatt, Webb and Oulton.Vortigernwas republished in 1832. The elder Ireland’s correspondence with regard to the forgeries is preserved in the British Museum, with numerous specimens of his son’s talent. Ireland’s career supplied the subject-matter of James Payn’s novelThe Talk of the Town(1885).