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

[SunkenCiv]

[Red Badger]

They could have all been him at different ages in his life, different weights and different stages of health.
I look nothing like I did 40 years ago...................

[Sans-Culotte]

And yet a lot of people say he didn’t write his plays at all (I’m not one of them).

[Don W]

Here I thought they were written by a Frenchman named Jacques-Pierre...

[David Chase]

Gosh........I remember in Detroit Public Schools how we attempted to do Shakespeare........

“To be or not to be. Dat be da question.”

[SunkenCiv]

I've noticed that of myself when I look in the mirror each morning. OTOH, people I don't recognize often recognize me from 40 years ago, so...

[sunny bonobo]

That portrait proves the Afronuts are right. Shakespeare was bLACK.

[SunkenCiv]

An old favorite:

William Shakespeare — Biography by A&E |

[odawg]

I was surprised when I learned that there was a likeness of Shakespeare at his tomb that no one regarded as authentic. I thought that was a ridiculous way to regard it.

[Honest Nigerian]

Reminds me of Captain Kangaroo. .... Waiting for the ping pong balls to be dumped.
I miss Bunny Rabbit and Mr. Moose.

[a fool in paradise]

I recognize him from my takeout pizza box

[Rurudyne]

People don’t realize this but when Shakespeare wrote the scripts for the Star Wars prequels that Jar Jar Binks was supposed to be the surprise big bad.

[wardaddy]

Flagstaff on Adkins diet

[SunkenCiv]

Heh... yeah, it'll happen, just pop into this topic once in a while.

Professor Michael Wood - Extended Interview |

[wardaddy]

Or Porthos...

All those old white guys from Elizabethan times look alike anyhow,

Nope I’m wrong....that’ effigy is Francis Bacon

[Buttons12]

I read somewhere that the monument had been altered. Originally there was no pen and paper, and he had on his lap a cushion or sack of some sort. Ye Pillow.
Anyway, it seems peculiar that he’d go to the trouble of commissioning his monument, yet never having his portrait done.
Also, when he died, his son-in-law mentioned it in his journal with words to the effect of, “my father-in-law died today.”
They made little fuss about him until much later.

[SunkenCiv]

Shakespeare's Mother The Secret Life of a Tudor Woman | BBC Documentary 2015

[outofsalt]

"Francis Bacon"

[SunkenCiv]

“Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I’ve got somethin’ I wanna tell ya.” — Bob Newhart (if memory serves)