Eureka Reporter | 1903-08-21 | Page 7 | Great Poet's Poor Hand

f I 1 t vor TU A REAT POETS POET POOR HAND shakespeare s writing not his calel C claim laim to fame W carew hazlitt in it recent article on lespeare s handwriting says we have to bear distinctly in mind when we seek to criticise criticism critic ise these some what examples of penman ship that the great dramatist used the court not like boason jonson and bacon the italian hand and that in the case of his contemporary and countryman michae michael dra draton ton the characters of the signature 64 6 4 ture are equally distant from ful filling technical postulates and if pos sible still less elegant the question of handwriting is of course I 1 in depend ent of that of educational acquire ments as we may satisfy ourselves from innumerable instances ancient and modern but if shakespeare was I 1 less ss happy in ills his calligraphy than in other directions the circumstance dees not affect as some have sought to demonstrate his general learning end and was his personal idiosyncrasy rather rather than the blame of the excellent provincial school which had the unique honor of being his alma mater 4