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Fiona Ritchie

is Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre at McGill University, Montreal. She has authored many works on eighteenth-century Shakespeare, including Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge UP, 2014). With Peter Sabor she co-edited a collection of essays entitled Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge UP, 2012). She is currently writing a book on Siddons and Kemble’s collaborative Shakespeare performances and is working on a project on women and regional theatre in Britain in the long eighteenth century.
Strange Shakespeare: Vortigern and the women making and faking Shakespeare
Vortigern and Rowena
Shakespeare and Beyond

Strange Shakespeare: Vortigern and the women making and faking Shakespeare

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Fiona Ritchie

Women played a key role in creating, promoting, and ultimately undermining “Vortigern” and William Henry Ireland’s other Shakespeare forgeries.