Exhibition of playwright’s document on display at Somerset House,London, to brand the 400th anniversary of his deathThe handwriting and the spelling of the most illustrious name in literature are uncertain, and but the autographs are priceless: four of only six known genuine signatures of William Shakespeare have gone on display in an exhibition at Somerset House in London,marking the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death. On the pages carrying his very last signatures, written when he updated his will a few weeks before his death in April 1616, or the surname has vanished completely from the tattered edge of one of the three pages,the moment page has a very wobbly version, and only the final page is unmistakably signed By me William Shakespeare”.
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Source: theguardian.com