Shakespeare's Signatures and Sir Thomas More
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780766128583
Subjects: Shakespeare plays, texts; Shakespeare; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism
First sentence: IN 1916 Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, once Keeper of the Manuscripts of the British Museum, published a monograph in which he essayed to prove, on "palaeographic" grounds, that a certain "well-known addition, written in an unidentified hand, to the MS. play of Sir Thomas More, now the Harleian MS. 7368 in the British Museum," is, in truth and in fact, written in a handwriting identical with that of the six signatures attributed to William Shaksper, or Shakspere, of Stratford-upon-Avon, who came to London probably in the year 1587.