05-24-2019, 05:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-24-2019, 06:00 PM by Deltabravo.)
The signatures of William Shakespeare
The signatures of William Shakespeare
This is something I find amusing. There are only a handful of examples of the handwriting of William Shakespeare ie., his signatures on some documents. There are no letters or any other documents of any kind written by him in his own fair hand.
Here are the handful of signatures which have been found:
Strange but true.
I did some research several years ago into the education he would have received had he attended a King's school and back then they taught students how to read but when it came to writing, because they had no paper or pens, they taught them to "write" orally. In other words, the students spelled out words orally and had little or no practice in actually writing them down on paper. There's no record, in fact, of Shakespeare having attended school at all. Queen Elizabeth issued a decree at the time that the first child of any person with a trade had to take up the occupation of his father, which means that the explanation of William Shakespeare slaying a deer is that he was getting leather to be used in his father's glove-making business.
He then moved to London where he lived in the home of a wig maker and a taylor or tyre (attire) maker before becoming involved in the underworld trade in imported leather which resulted in legal proceedings being take out against him after a breach of the peace.
Many years later he returned to Stratford where he bought a big house and then died, leaving his second best bed to his wife.
While in London, he wrote plays and poems which are considered to be the greatest examples English literature.
Here are the handful of signatures which have been found:
Strange but true.
I did some research several years ago into the education he would have received had he attended a King's school and back then they taught students how to read but when it came to writing, because they had no paper or pens, they taught them to "write" orally. In other words, the students spelled out words orally and had little or no practice in actually writing them down on paper. There's no record, in fact, of Shakespeare having attended school at all. Queen Elizabeth issued a decree at the time that the first child of any person with a trade had to take up the occupation of his father, which means that the explanation of William Shakespeare slaying a deer is that he was getting leather to be used in his father's glove-making business.
He then moved to London where he lived in the home of a wig maker and a taylor or tyre (attire) maker before becoming involved in the underworld trade in imported leather which resulted in legal proceedings being take out against him after a breach of the peace.
Many years later he returned to Stratford where he bought a big house and then died, leaving his second best bed to his wife.
While in London, he wrote plays and poems which are considered to be the greatest examples English literature.