Adventures in the Authorship Question

Adventures in the Authorship Question

The Poor Paleographic Arguments Supporting Hand D as Shakespeare's handwriting

In a 3-pronged approach to arguing that Shakespeare had a hand in Sir Thomas More, when this link breaks, the Stratford man is out of the picture.

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Dr R Barber
Jan 29, 2025
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There are three types of evidence which were used to identify Hand D as Shakespeare, and Shakespeare as definitively the Stratford man, in the original 1923 book that established this argument as a smackdown to the growing interest in the authorship question: handwriting, spellings, and content. All of these have inherent problems, as we shall see.

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