The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 18.0676 Wednesday, 10 October 2007
From: Larry Weiss <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 09 Oct 2007 16:27:45 -0400
Subject: Shakespeare's Will
I have just re-read the will, which I again find to be quite a lawyerly
piece of work, making due allowance for scribal sloppiness and last
minute changes which could not easily be accommodated in the absence of
Jacobean word processors. But I found one passage which would have
presented difficulties if the circumstances which would have invoked it
had come to pass: Shakespeare first gave