Shakespeare himself may have annotated 'Hamlet' book, claims researcher

Notes made on a 16th-century manuscript, thought to have been an inspiration for the play, could have been the Bard’s own, says John Casson

Annotations in the margins of a 16th-century text that is believed to have been one of the sources for Hamlet could have been made by Shakespeare himself, according to an independent researcher.

John Casson was looking through the British Library’s copy of François de Belleforest’s Histoires Tragiques, a 1576 French text thought to have been one of the sources for Shakespeare’s tragedy: it features the story of how a Danish prince, Amleth, avenges his father’s murder by his uncle, the latter going on to marry his mother, Geruthe.

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