Presented as a serious essay on insomnia among busy men, this little book claims to reveal newly discovered letters showing that Shakespeare was hounded by creditors, pawnbrokers and tradesmen while writing his plays. Each dunning letter is quoted in full and in mock-Elizabethan style, matched with apt lines from the plays.
A deadpan Chicago spoof of 1886 that fooled some of its first readers. Download the free EPUB.