Problems in Shakespeare's Penmanship: Including a Study of the Poets WillCentury Company for the Modern language association of America, 1927 - 241 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
abbreviation acute angle Addition alphabet angular ascending stroke base-line bequest Booke of Sir British Museum calligraphic Chalmers characteristic connecting stroke curved stroke deceas Deposition descending document Elizabethan evidence facs facsimile fact final loop flourish folio forgery Francis Collins genuineness George Chapman Guildhall Halliwell-Phillipps heavily shaded heavy horizontal spur horizontal stroke i-dot initial stroke initial upstroke Italian Italian alphabets John Judith label linked Malone manuscripts modern Montaigne occurs old English letter old English script original ornamental dot pen-lifts penman penmanship person photograph poet poet's probably proved resembling Roman scrivener Shak Shakspere autograph Shakspere's handwriting Shakspere's signatures Shaksperian shows signed Sir Edward Sir George Greenwood Sir John Puckering Sir Thomas Moore slightly specimen spere's Steevens straight surname terminal testator testator's Thomas Dekker Thomas Kyd tion vertical stem vertical stroke vnto William Shakespeare witnesses word writer's cramp written wrote
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Página 74 - In the name of god Amen I William Shackspeare of Stratford vpon Avon in the countie of warr gent in perfect health & memorie god be praysed doe make & Ordayne this my last will & testament in manner & forme followeing...
Página 99 - ... she shall att thend of the saied three Yeares be marryed vnto or attaine after doe sufficientlie Assure vnto her & thissue of her bodie landes Awnswereable to the porcion by this my will gyven vnto her & to be adiudged soe by my executours & overseers then my will ys that the said clu shalbe paied to such husbond as shall make such assurance to his owne vse.
Página 161 - Patteson used to exhibit the volume to his friends as a curiosity, on account of the autograph," which, he goes on to say, "challenges and defies suspicion, and has already passed the ordeal of numerous competent examiners, all of whom have, without a single doubt, expressed their conviction of its genuineness.
Página 98 - ... if not, to her executours or assignes, she lyving the saied terme after my deceas, Provided that...
Página 98 - Jone, and after her deceas the said l". shall Remaine Amongst the children of my saied Sister Equallie to be Devided Amongst them; But if my saied Daughter Judith be lyving att thend of the saied three Yeares, or anie yssue of her bodye, then my will ys...
Página 117 - I suspect he signed his name at the end of the will first, and so went backwards, which will account for that in the first page being worse written than the rest, the hand growing gradually weaker.
Página 99 - Judith's marriage portion was to have been £100. on condition of her husband's settling on her £150. in land." Hamilton W. Mabie went even wider of the mark when he said (William, Shakespeare, 1901, p. 398) that the poet left Judith " a small property on Chapel Lane and money to an amount equal to about eight thousand dollars in current values, and certain pieces of plate.
Página 151 - April 23, the seizure could not have occurred much before the end of the preceding month. It is satisfactory to know that the invalid's mind was as yet unclouded, several of the interlineations that were added on the occasion having obviously emanated from himself. And it is not necessary to follow the general opinion that the signatures betray the tremulous hand of illness, although portions of them may indicate that they were written from an inconvenient position.
Página 83 - ... becomes effective; ie, the testator's death. To common sense this is a fairly reliable indication that the will was revised into its present form when death was thought to be imminent and that the subscription of the will was hurried. Mr. Greenwood, accepting the view of those commentators who regard the will as a hastily signed rough draft, emphatically asserts that a fair copy of a will in Shakspere's time was unnecessary inasmuch as "a will in those days was not even required to be signed...
Página 98 - Equallie to be devided Amongst them. But if my saied daughter Judith be lyving att thend of the saied three Yeares or anie yssue of her bodye, then my will ys & soe I devise & bequeath the saied Hundred & ffyftie poundes to be sett out by my executours & overseers for the best benefitt of her & her issue & the stock not to be...