Insertion into Shakespeare's will: "...to my ffellowes John Hemynge Richard Burbage and Henry Cundell, 26 shillings 8 pence apiece to buy them rings
The head of legal records of The National Archives (TNA- the UK government's official archive, containing 1,000 years of history") has reinvestigated Shakespeare’s original will and came to the conclusion that parts of Shakespeare's will had to be redated .- Page two has been identified as a page reused from a previously unknown will, written earlier, the other two pages were rewritten in January 25, 1616, and that all three pages were slightly amended in darker ink in late March 1616.
The three-page will is dated 25 January 1616, with January crossed out and replaced by March.
Due to new technical analysis of infrared rays and multispectral analysis, it has been concluded that the paper and ink of the three folio pages are not uniform, and page 2 (click details) were written with different paper and ink.-
In late March a small number of additions in a darker ink were squeezed (!) into the will at this point in time, including the change from January to March including the bequests of mourning rings to his friends [Heminge, Burbage & Condell s.Faksimile], and the [second-best] bed to his wife.
The three-page will is dated 25 January 1616, with January crossed out and replaced by March.
Due to new technical analysis of infrared rays and multispectral analysis, it has been concluded that the paper and ink of the three folio pages are not uniform, and page 2 (click details) were written with different paper and ink.-
In late March a small number of additions in a darker ink were squeezed (!) into the will at this point in time, including the change from January to March including the bequests of mourning rings to his friends [Heminge, Burbage & Condell s.Faksimile], and the [second-best] bed to his wife.
Why did it never surprise Shakespeare experts that the "ingenious superbrain" Shakespere at first completely forgot in his will to leave even a single legacy for the theater and only belatedly squeezed between two lines an additional line bequeathing fellows (Heminge, Condell) with a ring without considering more formative figures such as Ben Jonson or Henry Wriothesley?
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