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Shakespeare unveiled: Ground-breaking new discovery about effigy above famous bard's grave may finally end mystery of what he looked like
Daily Mail ^ | March 20, 2021 | Harry Howard

Posted on 04/12/2021 9:29:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

The bust, which shows the Bard with moustache and goatee, was believed to have been installed several years after his death in 1616, meaning it was likely not an accurate likeness.

But now expert Professor Lena Cowen Orlin has said it was 'highly likely' that Shakespeare commissioned the monument, which could have been modelled from life by a sculptor who knew him.

How Shakespeare really looked has been a matter of debate because of uncertainty around the reliability of existing portraits of him.

Along with the effigy, the only work which definitively depicts him is the engraving which appears on the title page of the First Folio - the first compilation of his works - which was produced in 1623, after the writer's death.

Perhaps the most famous painting - the Cobbe Portrait - has been argued by some critics to in fact show fellow writer Sir Thomas Overbury.

Another, the Chandos portrait, which was painted between 1600 and 1610, can not definitely be said to depict Shakespeare.

It was previously thought that the bust in Shakespeare's funerary monument at his local church in the West Midlands by the poet’s son-in-law, Dr John Hall.

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To: SunkenCiv

This is all propaganda. The local government school teaches that he was a woman of color.


21 posted on 04/12/2021 9:59:02 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: wardaddy

Bacon, again with that paleo diet...


22 posted on 04/12/2021 9:59:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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My apologies, the image used turned out to be Getty Images (I didn't notice until I'd posted the topic, and have reported it) so here's another.
Introduction to Shakespeare. William Shakespeare Born 1564, died 1616 Born 1564, died 1616 Wrote 37 plays Wrote 37 plays Wrote over 150 sonnets.

Introduction to Shakespeare. William Shakespeare Born 1564, died 1616 Born 1564, died 1616 Wrote 37 plays Wrote 37 plays Wrote over 150 sonnets.

23 posted on 04/12/2021 10:04:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting. Thanks for the link.


24 posted on 04/12/2021 10:04:30 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Buttons12

That’s show biz.


25 posted on 04/12/2021 10:05:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Read “Dark Lady” about how Amelia Bassano, a lady poet, wrote many of Shakespeare’s plays. More credible than the Shakespeare fake news


26 posted on 04/12/2021 10:10:50 AM PDT by WLusvardi (Drudge Fudges)
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To: sunny bonobo

Nah, just a good tan. It was a sunny year in the UK, that year.


27 posted on 04/12/2021 10:14:33 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: SunkenCiv

Hmmmm... orange man bad?


28 posted on 04/12/2021 10:27:56 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: Sans-Culotte

My pleasure.


29 posted on 04/12/2021 10:36:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: WLusvardi

Rubbish.


30 posted on 04/12/2021 10:39:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://www.geni.com/people/Henry-Lanier/6000000009534867401)
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To: SunkenCiv

Why didn’t Shakespeare take a selfie? I’ll tell you why because he was threatened to be a white imperialist man by his rivals, especially by Ben Johnson who didn’t like Shakespeare because he didn’t go to football matches in Europe and act like a drunken swine. Ben Johnson got knifed by a white man which he thought just proves his theory on white supremacy. Francis Bacon also didn’t like Shakespeare for different reasons. Francis thought using numbers was racist. Shakespeare once mentioned that he added up all the money he received from his plays and Bacon thought that was racist. Back then only the Greeks and Arabs were allowed to use math, otherwise it was cultural appropriation. However, Shakespeare lived a good life but there was always this constant conspiracy surrounding him, probably cause by the Duke of Oxford. The Duke felt that Climate Change affected Shakespeare’s life and that he had only 20 years to live, so he recommended Shakespeare be treated with leaches that don’t leave a carbon trail. Shakespeare was so distraught with this that he penned Hamlet and it was originally going to be called Bloodlet — where everybody kills each other in the end — as a symbol for Global Warming. The Duke got wind of it and thought Shakespeare was razzing him and that set off a firestorm. The Duke wanted all the bathrooms changed into transgender washrooms just to confuse Shakespeare when he visited Oxford and then the Duke really got into Critical Theory and Wokeness in a vicious big way. He had all the pictures of Shakespeare ripped down in Oxford for being an old white man. That’s why nobody really knows what Shakespeare looked like, except his mom.


31 posted on 04/12/2021 12:05:39 PM PDT by BEJ
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To: SunkenCiv

All they have to do is look at a portrait of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, if they want to know what “Shake-speare” looked like.


32 posted on 04/12/2021 12:46:35 PM PDT by KamperKen
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To: SunkenCiv

That was very good!


33 posted on 04/12/2021 1:00:03 PM PDT by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG lz’’z:s)
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To: KamperKen
Up until he died, anyway, after which William Shakespeare continued to write his plays, like the others in his own name, including King Lear, MacBeth, Antony and Cleo, The Tempest, and Henry VIII.

34 posted on 04/12/2021 1:04:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Read “Shakespeare by Another Name” by Mark Anderson.

I personally don’t care who wrote the plays. I have no emotional investment in the authorship nor do I own a souvenir shop on Stratford-upon-Avon.

The author makes a very compelling, almost irrefutable case, that de Vere was the author.


35 posted on 04/12/2021 1:18:24 PM PDT by KamperKen
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The Book of Sir Thomas More: Shakespeare's only surviving literary manuscript

The Book of Sir Thomas More: Shakespeare's only surviving literary manuscript
Sir Edmund Tylney

Sir Edmund Tylney
1666: The Great Fire of London

The Great Fire of London

36 posted on 04/12/2021 1:30:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: KamperKen
My ass.

37 posted on 04/12/2021 1:32:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BEJ

LOL


38 posted on 04/12/2021 1:35:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: wardaddy

My pleasure.


39 posted on 04/12/2021 1:35:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

This is your response to a book you haven’t read?

I thought better of you than that.


40 posted on 04/12/2021 1:38:14 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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