neednothavehappenedtobetrue:

authorkurikuri:

mithrandir-the-cat:

authorkurikuri:

if you ever feel bad about not being able to spell “shakespeare,” remember that shakespeare himself spelled his surname at least five different ways, none of which were “shakespeare”

Lol wait what? Really?

there are only six surviving documents with shakespeare’s signature on them (all of which are legal documents), and on them he spells his name:

1. Shakp
2. Shaksper

3. Shakspe

4. Shakspere (twice)

5. Shakspeare

the modern spelling of his name became popular only in the late 1800s (x, x, x)

@raisel-the-riveter