William Shakespeare’s will is now available to the public to read online, nearly 400 years after the playwright put quill to paper. The historic document, in which Shakespeare famously bequeathed his “second-best bed” to his wife, has been put on the web by the National Archives. The wills of more than 100 other famous figures from the past are also available for the public to view in colour via the web, including William Wordsworth, Oliver Cromwell, Jane Austen, Sir Francis Drake, Samuel Pepys and Sir Christopher Wren.
