Stalking Shakespeare: a Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint by Lee Durkee
Author:Lee Durkee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2023-04-18T00:00:00+00:00
14 Stone Cold Shakespeare
The Welbeck portrait of Edward de Vere, a seventeenth-century copy of a picture, now lost to history, painted in Paris circa 1575. This portrait, artist unknown, is on long-term loan from Welbeck Abbey to Londonâs National Portrait Gallery.
Mark Twain, bedazzled by the poverty of facts surrounding the playwrightâs life, dubbed Shakespeare âthe Great Unknownâ and compared him to a museum brontosaurus made from too much plaster and too few bones. In search of some unassailable facts, I turned to Professor Stanley Wellsâs essay âWhat Was He Really Like?â
There, I gleaned many insights into at least one of Shakespeareâs bones:
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