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No, he did not have bad handwriting. The very few examples of his writing which we have are signatures which tend to be a bit messier than ordinary handwriting anyway. But even from them it is clear that Shakespeare had learned the handwriting called "Secretary Hand" in school. Secretary Hand can look messy to modern eyes no matter how well it is done, which is probably why some people get the idea that Shakespeare had bad handwriting.

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We have very few samples of Shakespeare's handwriting, all signatures on legal documents. As signatures tend to be, they are a bit messy.

Many people have difficulty with Shakespeare's writing because he was taught in school to write in a kind of script called "Secretary Hand" which looks messy and difficult to the modern eye. However, if Shakespeare's signatures are any indication, he could produce a reasonably clear script in that kind of handwriting, and so his handwriting was not poor at all, just different.

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It is not known if Shakespeare always wrote in black pen. William Shakespeare's most famous work is Romeo and Juliet.

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A quill pen, very possibly a goose quill.

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Judging from his signatures, no.

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