Shakespeare's Handwriting - "Hand D" and the manuscript of "Sir Thomas More"

For reals. The only known example, putative but best theory. What happened to all his other manuscripts? There were "fair" and "foul" copies. The foul were working copies and first drafts -- like this, Hand D. The fair copies were cleaned up and neat. Some will have survived in personal libraries, but lost to time and mites. Theaters -- or rather, *theatres* had their own archives of the plays they owned.

Point is, in 1613 the Globe Theatre burned down during a production of Henry VIII -- stage-cannon set the thatch roof ablaze. To paraphrase King Claudius (tee hee) -- so much for Shakespeare's manuscripts.

But this still survives -- to paraphrase John Adams' last words (tee hee).

Jack H