William Shakespeare in Haverford Special Collections (HC)

Buckingham rewrote Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, turning it into two plays, both of which were much more supportive of Caesar than Shakespeare had been.

This work is said to have caused the death of a female spectator from "pathos" when it was put on.

Argues for Francis Bacon as author of the works of William Shakespeare.

Samuel and William Henry Ireland published this book of forged Shakespeare-related documents, "Miscellaneous Papers under the Hand and Seal of Shakespeare," in 1796. They claimed to have discovered the manuscript of King Lear, correspondence between Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare, and an entirely new play, Vortigern and Rowena, which was put on to widespread derision.