Are there any existing copies of Shakespeares work in his own handwriting?
Although Shakespeare’s signature appears on several legal documents, we have no copies of any plays (in the accepted canon) in his own handwriting. Some handwriting experts claim that three pages of the original manuscript of the play Sir Thomas More (1593) are in Shakespeare’s own handwriting. The whole play is in five different hands, and “hand D” is said to be Shakespeare’s. This theory, however, is not universally accepted. Did Shakespeare have a happy childhood? Shakespeare appears to have had a typical childhood growing up in Stratford. Although his early years were marred by family tragedies, he seems to have been well adjusted. For more on his childhood, please see my biography section. When were the “lost years” in Shakespeare’s life? We know very little about Shakespeare’s life during two major spans of time, commonly referred to as the “lost years”: 1578-82 and 1585-92. The first period covers the time after Shakespeare left grammar school, until his marriage to Anne Hathawa
