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The only play Shakespeare wrote by hand sits at the British Library. You probably don't know about it because Shakespeare was not the main writer. One of Shakespeare's lesser-known works is a play he co-wrote.The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore.This play was written in the late 16th or 17th century.The manuscriptAvailable online, this text covers Sir Thomas More's life. More was a lawyer, author, and advisor to Henry VIII. He was executed because he refused to accept the king as the head of the Church of England.

Anthony Munday wrote the play mainly, alongside Thomas Dekker and possibly Henry Chettle, Thomas Heywood, and Shakespeare.

Andrew Dickson, an arts critic and journalist, wrote in an article.Andrew Dickson wrote an article for the British Library.Shakespeare wrote about "the play's emotional highpoint, in which the heroic More... pleads with the crowd to accept and welcome the asylum seekers in their midst." Here is an excerpt:

Imagine you see the wretched strangers,
Their babies carried on their backs, with their poor luggage.
Plodding to the ports and coasts for transportation,
And you sit as kings in your desires,
Authority went silent by your brawl.