A Fantastic Little Corner

Non-standardized spelling is the very best. Of the four (or six?) surviving Shakespeare signatures, he never spells his name the same way twice. It cracked me up reading Morte D'arthur and how many ways Thomas Mallory spelled his name -- or how spellings of character names would change within a paragraph. It seems so counter-intuitive to me not to spell the same word the same way every time! Did these people just operate on whims? "I think I feel like Taytor this time..."