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    William Shakespeare's handwriting is known from six surviving signatures, all of which appear on legal documents. It is believed by many scholars that...
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    blackletter script Round hand – Type of handwriting Secretary hand – Style of European handwriting Shakespeare's handwriting Signature – Handwritten mark made...
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  • spellings in the additions with what we know of Shakespeare's handwriting, concluded that Shakespeare did indeed write the additions. Bruster attributed...
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    William Shakespeare. Shakespearean scholars, beginning with Edmond Malone in 1778, have attempted to reconstruct the relative chronology of Shakespeare's oeuvre...
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    Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number...
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    associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark, close to the south bank of the Thames, by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord...
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    Thomas Goffe, Shakespeare, and George Chapman. Professional handwriting expert Charles Hamilton attempted to argue that the play was Shakespeare's manuscript...
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    "Bard of Avon". Shakespeare bibliography Chronology of Shakespeare's plays William Shakespeare's collaborations Complete Works of Shakespeare Early texts...
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    Cursive (redirect from Cursive handwriting)
    "italic" as it relates to handwriting is not to be confused with italic typed letters. Many, but not all, letters in the handwriting of the Renaissance were...
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    disparage the claims. Shakespeare's authorship was first questioned in the middle of the 19th century, when adulation of Shakespeare as the greatest writer...
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    Edward Rosen, Nicolaus Copernicus Thorunensis. Sidney Lee, Shakespeare's Handwriting: Facsimiles of the Five Authentic Autograph Signatures, London...
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    Sir Thomas More (play) (category Shakespeare apocrypha)
    correct, these three pages represent the only surviving examples of Shakespeare's handwriting, aside from a few signatures on documents. The manuscript, with...
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    Stratford-upon-Avon since at least Shakespeare's day, though the first recorded performance of a play written by Shakespeare himself was in 1746 when Parson...
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  • where the signatures are arranged in a circle Royal sign-manual Shakespeare's handwriting Signum manus Tughra Huaya "John Hancock". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved...
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    Folger Library editions of Shakespeare's plays, the journal Shakespeare Quarterly, the teacher resource books Shakespeare Set Free, and catalogs of exhibitions...
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    of Greek and Latin palaeography and for his study of William Shakespeare's handwriting in the manuscript of the play Sir Thomas More. Thompson was born...
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    category, romance, to describe the specific types of comedy that appear in Shakespeare's later works. This alphabetical list includes everything listed as a...
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  • applications for the Shakespeare coat-of-arms are also in Shakespeare's handwriting. Hamilton presents charts and examples that compare the handwriting in each document...
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    absence of records concerning Shakespeare's education, his limited experience of the world, his allegedly poor handwriting skills (evidenced in his signatures)...
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    after Shakespeare's death. It is considered one of the most influential books ever published. Printed in folio format and containing 36 of Shakespeare's plays...
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    Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare published in 1593. It is probably Shakespeare's first publication. The poem tells the story of...
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    Shakespeare's Handwriting: Facsimiles of the Five Authentic Autograph Signatures, London, Smith Elder, 1899. Wallace, Charles William, "Shakespeare and...
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  • the field. Shakespeare's hand in the manuscript for Sir Thomas More was discovered by Edward Maunde Thompson in Shakespeare's Handwriting: A Study (1916)—and...
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    Henry VII. For Shakespeare's use of the three myths, see Interpretations. H. A. Kelly in Divine Providence in the England of Shakespeare's Histories (1970)...
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    Secretary hand (category Handwriting script)
    Secretary hand or script is a style of European handwriting developed in the early sixteenth century that remained common in the sixteenth and seventeenth...
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    historical basis for Shakespeare's Roman plays comes from The Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch, whereas the source of Shakespeare's Britain-based...
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    The Spanish Tragedy (category Shakespeare apocrypha)
    appear in Shakespeare's Hamlet. (Thomas Kyd is frequently proposed as the author of the hypothetical Ur-Hamlet that may have been one of Shakespeare's primary...
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    regarded as the greatest Shakespeare scholar of his time, conclusively showed that the language, orthography, and handwriting were not those of the times...
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    addition in "Hand D" to be in Shakespeare's handwriting. However, there is no explicit external evidence for Shakespeare's hand in the play, so the identification...
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    lead and sought to determine an authoritative text of Shakespeare. Johnson began reading Shakespeare's plays and poetry when he was a young boy. He would...
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