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A portion of the manuscript exists, in the hand of a professional scribe, Anthony Munday. It is full of crossings-out, corrections and additions in 5 different handwritings (possibly of other scribes), one of which has tentatively been identified as S's. The guess is that either this is a clean copy of a play by S, sent to a copyist and then rewritten and altered; or, more likely, that it is a play by someone else that S was tinkering with, the way he rewrote existing Henry VI plays. The ms is in the British Museum where, until about 10 years ago, it was on public display in the manuscript room. It was removed to make room for a display case on the Beatles.Posted by Hamlet on April 14, 1997 at 12:15:20
In Reply to "Sir Thomas More" posted by Merrill McCarty on April 14, 1997 at 11:26:40
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