The name was spelled in a variety of ways in
Warwickshire. The only way it was not spelled was Shakespeare. And it
was pronounced Shaxpur, though many writers on his life and works
have denied this. These signatures are the only writings extant of
Shaksper of Stratford. There is not a single word in
manuscript of the Plays or Poems to connect him, by direct
evidence, with the Shakespeare Works. There is not even a letter,
a phrase, a word that has ever been known to exist in his
handwriting. There is nothing on record to indicate that he could do
any more than painfully scrawl his own name. There is not the
slightest proof that he could express his thoughts in writing at all.
There is not a scrap of paper anywhere of the debris of Shakespeare's
workshop. It sounds like a Falstaff or a false
spear?
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