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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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...................
And yet a lot of people say he didn’t write his plays at all (I’m not one of them).
Here I thought they were written by a Frenchman named Jacques-Pierre...
Gosh........I remember in Detroit Public Schools how we attempted to do Shakespeare........
“To be or not to be. Dat be da question.”
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...
That portrait proves the Afronuts are right. Shakespeare was bLACK.
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.
Reminds me of Captain Kangaroo. .... Waiting for the ping pong balls to be dumped.
I miss Bunny Rabbit and Mr. Moose.
I recognize him from my takeout pizza box
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.
Flagstaff on Adkins diet
Heh... yeah, it'll happen, just pop into this topic once in a while.
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Or Porthos...
All those old white guys from Elizabethan times look alike anyhow,
Nope I’m wrong....that’ effigy is Francis Bacon
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.
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“Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I’ve got somethin’ I wanna tell ya.” — Bob Newhart (if memory serves)
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