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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 – Analysis of the playwright's hand...
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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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    Shakespeare's Handwriting: Facsimiles of the Five Authentic Autograph Signatures, London, Smith Elder, 1899. Wallace, Charles William, "Shakespeare and...
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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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    Cursive (redirect from Cursive handwriting)
    cursive writing is the same as their print writing, regardless of which handwriting the child had learned first. Cursive is a style of penmanship in which...
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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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    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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    "Bard of Avon". Shakespeare bibliography Chronology of Shakespeare's plays William Shakespeare's collaborations Complete Works of Shakespeare Early texts...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    in Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, and longer poems. The case also relies on perceived parallels of language, idiom, and thought between Shakespeare's works...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • Porter considers him to be "a kind of ghost character" like others in Shakespeare's plays, due to his strong connection with Mercutio that differentiates...
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