SHAKESPEARE BIOGRAPHERS
and all their faked portraits
of (pseudo)-images of Shakespeare!
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We have no proof that Shakespeare himself ever had a portrait done of himself, and there is no written description of his physical appearance. So our knowledge of his appearance is fairly limited.
Because of his fame and the lack of accurate images, countless fake Shakespeare images cropped up and portraits of others were often mislabeled as Shakespeare.
It’s hard to determine exactly how all these fake portraits
impacted the image we now have of Shakespeare.
Probably the most accurate (authentic?) but posthumous images of Shak(e)speare are considered to come from
a) the Droeshout engravement and
b) the Stratford monument.
One has to call
most Shakespeare biographers
in some way "dishonest experts":
they all used not authentic "faked" portraits !!
(apart perhaps from the 2- most likely authenthic portraits below )
Your sincere OPINION ??
Why the left picture (of Shaksperes Bust in the Trinity Church in Stratford, ca 1622/3?) has never reached the Title Cover of a Shakespeare biography?
The monument doesn’t represent the Genius but the local citizen .
