Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1918-10-04 | Page 6 | Evidence of Little Worth

EVIDENCE OF LITTLE WORTH Illegibility of Shakespeare's Signature Does Not Prove He Did Not Write the Immortal Plays. Some years ago, when the Shakespeare Shakes-peare controversy was at its height, one of the contentions of the party who declared that the bard not only had not written the immortal plays but could not even write his own name, gave as evidence the existing signatures that are of undoubted authenticity. au-thenticity. On the same grounds It might bs argued that Richard III was unable to write, if one decided the matter from the signature to a treaty of peace with Francis, Duke of Brittany, which is reproduced in a London deal-er's deal-er's catalogue Just received. It is a mystery how the catalojnier managed to make "Richard Rex" out of the shaky scribble which is there reproduced. It would be quite as likely like-ly to stand for Will Shakespeare, were It not that the smaller word stands second and the longer one first.