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Article: Washington library features Bard's fakes
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- September 6, 2003
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WASHINGTON (AP) - When the subject is William Shakespeare, even
fake artifacts warrant their own show.
A Folger Shakespeare Library exhibit called "Fakes, Forgeries,
Facsimiles" includes a love letter to his wife and a lock of his
hair, neither of which really came from the bard.
There's also a display where visitors can guess items that are
real and which are fakes.
They can puzzle over a book that goes back a century before
Shakespeare was born - Geoffrey ...