About this episode
Samuel Ireland was an avid collector, the type of man who boasted and tried to make himself look important. His son, William Henry, just wanted to make his dad proud of him. Sources: The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare, by Doug Stewart Shakespeare and Others by S. Schoenbaum 'The Poet's Hand,' Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Henry-Ireland https://www.npr.org/2010/06/19/127931669/william-henry-irelands-great-shakespearean-hoax See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.