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...ge and Bentley, this supposed lost play is in fact a '''nineteenth-century hoax'''. It requires mention here, hopefully to head off any further confusion. : It seems odd that no one else seems to have seen this play. Could it be a hoax? The phrase on the title-page, "now attempted in blank verse", sounds curi

NB This purported lost play is a '''hoax'''. It is listed here simply to document that it is indeed inauthentic.

NB This purported lost play is a '''hoax'''. It is listed here simply to document that it is indeed inauthentic.

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Suckling's allusion to "''Englands Ioy''" refers to a famous hoax in 1602 in which an audience paid a high admission for a play that was neve

Historical Pageant; "Hoax Show" (Harbage). ...enre might have, in effect, changed: if in 1602 the ''Plot'' was part of a hoax—and represented a play that did not in fact exist—then later, in 1614,