WS 'second best bed' bequest was an act of love

[marco]

a new study suggests that the playwright was more thoughtful than his will implies.

Using x-ray and infra-red technology, scientists at the National Archives
and British Library, have studied the paper and ink of Shakespeare's will
to determine when it was written.

They found that the 'second-best bed' clause was inserted around March 1616,
just a month before Shakespeare's death, when it is likely he knew his days
were numbered.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/04/how-shakespeares-second-best-bed-bequest-was-an-act-of-love/

marc

[graham.a...@btinternet.com]

Hardly an act of love to leave a worn best bed to your wife!

[poor tom]

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Do you perhaps think the bed in question was a double bed?

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[poor tom]

And as such, can it perhaps be said that the second best bed was a double bed?
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And if that's the case, and given it was a second BEST bed, then perhaps what was meant was a second B EST bed?

To put it another way: second (2) B (2) EST: Lat: "it is" (2 words):

If only we could see the happy pair, the lying in the B E D:

If we could, we might also imagine the couple joined together:

Thereby proving that it was indeed a second best bed after all:

[graham.a...@btinternet.com]

Well it would have been big enough for two. I don't think they had specific sizes for beds like we do today. But at one time it was the best that money can buy. Hence the term "best".
According to the text of a Woman Killed With Kindness, which is all about Shakespeare and Anne. He made sure she was dressed in the finest of clothes too. The Shakespeare's are called Frankford in that play, but he doesn't change the Christian name of the character. Her husband calls her "Nan" so that is what I think Shakespeare called his wife.

[poor tom]

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My reply went right over your head: Even Art should have picked it up.

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[marco]

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