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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

    04/12/2021 9:29:05 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 56 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | March 20, 2021 | Harry Howard
    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...