Medieval History
Before William Shakespeare created such literary and stage classics as "Macbeth" and "Romeo and Juliet," the legendary playwright may have labored over property deeds and other mundane legal documents.
Did Shakespeare work as an attorney before achieving immortality at the Globe Theatre? That's one of the theories a University of Mississippi professor speculated on this week after he and three of his students compared a known signature by the Bard of Avon with another signature on the title page of "Archaionomia," a well-known legal treatise housed at Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
Gregory Heyworth accompanied UM seniors Andrew Henning of Batesville, Mitchell Hobbs of Madison and Kristen Vise of Jackson, all students in the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College, to the nation's capitol, where they spent their spring break studying the Folger documents. Using state-of-the-art digital imaging equipment, the Ole Miss team verified that the previously unknown signature is indeed from the same 17th century period as the playwright.
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Medieval History
University of Mississippi students analyze Shakespeare's signature
Before William Shakespeare created such literary and stage classics as "Macbeth" and "Romeo and Juliet," the legendary playwright may have labored over property deeds and other mundane legal documents.
Did Shakespeare work as an attorney before achieving immortality at the Globe Theatre? That's one of the theories a University of Mississippi professor speculated on this week after he and three of his students compared a known signature by the Bard of Avon with another signature on the title page of "Archaionomia," a well-known legal treatise housed at Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
Gregory Heyworth accompanied UM seniors Andrew Henning of Batesville, Mitchell Hobbs of Madison and Kristen Vise of Jackson, all students in the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College, to the nation's capitol, where they spent their spring break studying the Folger documents. Using state-of-the-art digital imaging equipment, the Ole Miss team verified that the previously unknown signature is indeed from the same 17th century period as the playwright.
Click here to read this article from ClintonNews.com
- Professor Earns Fellowship To Research Medieval English Morality Plays
Gail McMurray Gibson said that her college professors first sparked her interest in medieval studies. She has pursued that interest and become one of the most inspiring and decorated teachers in Davidson College. She has received the college?s Thomas...
- The Pensive Prince Of Denmark
Is he, or is he not Hamlet, the Dane? After having claimed for so long that the tragic prince of William Shakespeare?s eponymous play, Hamlet, had his origins in Danish mythology, literary scholars now provide evidence that Denmark?s famous prince was,...
- Medievalists Work To Restore Damaged 14th Century Manuscript
A team of medieval scholars are undertaking a project to restore a 14th century manuscript, which was had been badly damaged in the Second World War, and was believed to have been unrecoverable. Gregory Heyworth, associate professor of English at the...
- Cfp: Digital Diplomatics 2011 (naples, 29.9.-1.10.2011)
CfP: Digital Diplomatics 2011 (Naples, 29.9.-1.10.2011) The study of medieval legal documents (charters, deeds, instruments ?) makes increasingly use of digital tools. The massive growth of documents online ? as images, as calendars, as texts ? and the...
- 2nd Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium On Manuscript Studies In The Digital Age
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