Shakespeare signature Uncovered by 50-megapixel imaging system

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A professor and his students have identified a probable new Shakespeare signature in a 16th century legal text. Using a 50-megapixel multispectral digital imaging system, members of The Lazarus Project have tweaked the status of the autograph from "who knows" to "possible."
University of Mississippi English professor Gregory Heyworth and his students, Andrew Henning, Mitchell Hobbs, and Kristen Vise, spent their spring break in Washington, D.C. at the Folger Shakespeare Library imaging a faint signature in a copy of "Archaionomia," a survey of Saxon laws published during the reign of England's Queen Elizabeth I—Shakespeare's time.  More...