Shakespeare’s Handwriting

Learn to read secretary hand!

As you know, there are only six (five mostly legible) signatures of Shakspere as evidence of his handwriting. The writing style of the time for this kind of work was Secretary Hand, written quickly with a feather quill pen, the nib of which has been cut to a sharp point. The example below is from A Game at Chess, by Thomas Middleton, although the handwr…