The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 19.0666 Thursday, 20 November 2008
[1] From: Mairi Macdonald <
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Date: Thursday, 20 Nov 2008 14:27:31 -0000
Subt: RE: SHK 19.0655 First Folios in the News
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Date: Thursday, 20 Nov 2008 17:26:48 -0500
Subt: Re: SHK 19.0655 First Folios in the News
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From: Mairi Macdonald <
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Date: Thursday, 20 Nov 2008 14:27:31 -0000
Subject: 19.0655 First Folios in the News
Comment: RE: SHK 19.0655 First Folios in the News
The original will in The National Archives shows quite clearly that the month
has been changed from January to March, although it has never been
satisfactorily decided whether or not the date (25th) is the January or March
date. The presumption is that the will was re-drafted in March but that the
scribe initially forgot to change the superscription.
As far as the involvement of Francis Collins is concerned, there are several
issues which suggest that this is a more than a probability:
The style and tone of the will is remarkably similar to others he is known to
have been responsible for (William Combe, 1610 and John Combe, 1613) as is the
fact that the document was never engrossed, again a feature of the Combe wills,
whether or not drafted in periculo mortis.
On April 8th 1616 Collins was appointed Town Clerk for Stratford, on condition
that he lived in the town, and from then until his death in 1618, the Council
minutes are written in a hand remarkably similar to that of the will, but again,
whether by Collins himself or a clerk, is undetermined. There is a resemblance
to the draft assignment of the Stratford tithes in 1605, and it is most
strikingly similar in a list added to previous minutes in 1617. The insertions
in the will may be in different hand, so perhaps what we have is the main text
by a clerk with alterations by Collins, or vice versa.
Mairi Macdonald
Head of Local Collections
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
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From: Peter Holland <
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Date: Thursday, 20 Nov 2008 17:26:48 -0500
Subject: 19.0655 First Folios in the News
Comment: Re: SHK 19.0655 First Folios in the News
Please see, for example, S. Schoenbaum, *William Shakespeare: A Documentary
Life* (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1975), p. 242.
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