Harley 7368, f.9 First Page of the 'May Day Scene', generally attributed to Shakespeare, from...

Dimensions: 445 x 333 mm (mount) Part of the scene Shakespeare wrote for the co-authored play, 'Sir Thmas More'. The only surviving literary manuscript in Shakespeare's hand. [The only surviving literary manuscript in Shakespeare's hand.] Author: Shakespeare, William / Shakespear's rewrite probably dates from the early years of the reign of James I, 1603-4. Source/Shelfmark: Harley 7368, f.9 William Shakespeare (1564-1616); first folio; part of a collaborative revision of an early drama tracing More's career; This incomplete transcript, copied mostly in the hand of Anthony Munday, with additions and revisions made by five other dramatists, was submitted for a licence to Edmund Tillney, Master of the Revels; originally published between 1593 and 1601;