AU633 – A History of Literary Hoaxes

From ‘lost’ Shakespeare plays and diaries by Jack the Ripper and Hitler, to the literary hoax perpetrated by a Nobel Prize winner, and the rejection of the greatest female writer in English literature, this fascinating history of hoaxes, frauds and forgeries is peppered with a cast of opportunists, genius forgers, would be novelists and blatant self-publicists.

This one-off session will look at several of the most famous, the stories behind them and those who carried them out.