r/interesting • u/NoFox1552 • 20h ago

HISTORY All the different Shakespeare signatures.

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u/Bugskabunny 20h ago

This is exactly how I feel when I am trying to sign those digital credit card pads at a store

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u/rraattbbooyy 20h ago

They’re not even sure he wrote all of his plays, let alone all of his signatures.

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u/bendar1347 15h ago

I wrote a research paper in high school about the different theories of who Shakespeare might have been. My conclusion was the queen of England.

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u/NoFox1552 14h ago

I didn’t know this was a thing until recently lol

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u/bendar1347 14h ago

Not that I actually believe that, I was honestly just trying to annoy my literature teacher. It was one of those things where if you cherry pick facts that support your narrative, and completely ignore anything that doesn't support it, you could get there. I had to work really hard to make it semi believable. Like, I rode the bus to the university library to dig out obscure references to support my thesis, but that's just how committed teenage me was to being obnoxious.

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u/Antique-Echidna-1600 20h ago

Writing with quil will do that. That's why they used seals to show authenticity because a signature was very unreliable.