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Today, I read Charles Hamilton's *In Search of Shakespeare*. (You know…I had a
bitte of free time…I decided to read some good fiction…) I figured that Hamilton's
complete list of things (besides signatures) in Shakespeare's handwriting is:
(1) The Will (He's probably right about this one)
(2) Sir Thomas More, Hand D(")
(3) The several drafts of the papers for the Coat of Arms, including the pictures
(4) The legal papers for something or other, I forget what
(5) Annotations in Holinshed’s Chronicles
(6) Annotations in something else
(7) The Langleat page, including the picture‡
(8) The Northumberland manuscript (cover, a few pages of text, and annotations)
To wich we may add, though they're not mentioned in the book
(9) Annotations is Edward Halle's *Union of the Two Noble Houses of York and Lancaster*
(I think I read asomewhere that Hamilton believes that Shakespeare wrote them)
(10) The Second Mayden's Tragedy (He wrote a whole book about it)
(11) Edmund Ironside (E. Sams mentions that Hamltn says that it's in Shakespeare's hand.
‡He believes the picture of the bearded guy on the right to be a Shakespearean
self-portrait.
But why am I plaging you with this? I must have a point to make. That point is to ask
you:
What doe yoo thinke of ye Northumberland manuscript.
I'm not taken in by Hamilton's Shenannegans. Reading the book was excruciating, but it
was fun. (Is that an oxymoron? [I mean "exruciating fun".])
I guess to please everyone, an COMPLETE edition of Shakespeare should include:
Commendatory Poems and Prefaces, 1599-1640 ComPoe
COMEDIES
All's Well That Ends Well AWW
As You Like It AYLI
The Two Gentlemen of Verona TwGent
The Comedy of Errors Err
The Taming of a Shrew AShr
The Taming of the Shrew Shrew
Love's Labour's Lost LLL
A Midsummer Night's Dream MND
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Quarto) MWWq
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Folio) MWWf
Meaure for Measure MM
Much Ado About Nothing ADO
Twelfth Night, or What You Will TN
Fair Em FEm
Locrine Loc
TRAGEDIES
Macbeth Mac
Hamlet (Fratricide Punished) FP
Hamlet (First Quarto) Hamq1
Hamlet (Second Quarto [and folio]) Hamq2 {or Hamf}
Othello Oth
King Leir Leir
King Lear (Quarto) Lrq
King Lear (Folio) Lrf
Julius Cæsar JC
Romeo and Juliet (First quarto) RJq1
Romeo and Juliet (Second Quarto [and folio]) RJq {or RJf}
Titus Andronicus TA
Timon of Athens Tim
Coriolanus Cor
Antony and Cleopatra A&C
HISTORIES
Edmund Ironside EI
The Troublesome Reign of King John, Parts 1 and 2 1TR and 2TR
The Life of King John Jn
The Reign of King Edward the Third E3
Richard the Third R2
Henry the Fourth, Part 1 1H4
Henry the Fourth, Part 2 2H4
The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth FV
Henry the Fifth (Quarto) H5q
Henry the Fifth (Folio) H5f
Henry the Sixth, Part 1 1H6
The Contention Between the Houses… Cont
Henry the Sixth, Part 2 2H6
Richard, Duke of York RDY
Henry the Sixth, Part 3 3H6
The True Tragedy of Richard the Third TrTrag
Richard the Third R3
Sir Thomas More, Hand D STM
Henry the Eighth H8
TRAGICOMEDIES
The Merchant of Venice MV
Troilus and Cressida T&C
ROMANCES
Pericles Per
Cymbeline Cym
The Tempest Temp
The Winter's Tale WT
The Two Noble Kinsmen TNK
The Second Maiden’s Tragedy SMT
POEMS
Sonnets Son
A Lover's Complaint LC
Venus and Adonis V&A
The Rape of Lucrece Luc
Various Poems, including: VarPoe
A Song (Shall I Die) SID
The Phœnix and Turtle PhT
The Passionate Pilgrim PP
Epitaphs, including: Eph
Upon a Pair of Gloves Glvs
Upon the King Jms
Upon John Combe Cmb
Upon Ben Jonson Jns
Upon Himself Slf
Upon the Stanley Tomb Stn
The Funeral Elegy FE
MISCELANNEOUS
Will Will
Northumberland manuscript NthUmb
The Langleat Page (with picture) LngltPg
All the drafts for the coat of Arms CoatArms
Annotations in Holinshed HolAnno
Annotations in Halle HalAnno
Posted by Gabriel Z. Wasserman on April 14, 1997 at 13:37:43
In Reply to "Sir Thomas More" posted by Merrill McCarty on April 14, 1997 at 11:26:40
