The part of "foul papers" from Sir Thomas More likely to be in Shakespeare's handwriting. Courtesy of the British Library

                            STAGING SIR THOMAS MORE

This anonymous play, dated by W. W. Greg about 1593 (but later by some), survives only in a damaged manuscript, revised after censorship by the Master of the Revels, which contains five distinct additions in different scripts from the first draft, of which the  fourth "D" is generally held to be in Shakespeare's handwriting (e.g. above). In this scene More pacifies a xenophobic mob. The whole script was staged by the RSC in 2005 and the ascription of the supposed Shakespeare parts was found plausible. HMR

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