![]() It was native and common in England at the time, and was the cursive style taught in schools. Shakespeare's six extant signatures were written in the style known as secretary hand. This may have been the edition he studied as a child in grammar school. ![]() ![]() This secretary alphabet is in a penmanship book by Jehan de Beau-Chesne and John Baildon published in 1570, when Shakespeare would have been five or six years old.
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