Crammed with minuscule writing, manuscript is seen as earliest ‘proper reader’s response’ to first folio
The anonymous notebook draws on hundreds of quotations from Shakespeare’s 36 plays in the first folio, which was published in 1623.The anonymous notebook draws on hundreds of quotations from Shakespeare’s 36 plays in the first folio, which was published in 1623.In 2017, an expert on BBC One’s Antiques Roadshow was excited by a minuscule 17th-century notebook that bore the name of Shakespeare, but the writing was so tiny it was difficult to read.
It will be publicly displayed for the first time as part of an exhibition at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon. “We’re able to see things that he really liked about Shakespeare and what he wanted to remember or to use maybe in conversation and to sound clever,” he said. “The plays just flow on from each other seamlessly. For example, you’re reading Measure for Measure and suddenly you’re reading The Comedy of Errors.”
For example, Stern said the notebook’s author overlooked Hamlet’s “to be, or not to be”, preferring a description of kneeling: “‘And crooke the pregnant Hindges of the knee,’ which he rendered ‘Crooke ye pregnant hindges of ye knee’.” Stern noted that he simplified it to what may be more useful as a general threat: “My nailes Ile Anchor in thine eys.”
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