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A picture of Shakespeare believed to the the only painted in his life has been discovered.  The painting wasn’t hidden away somewhere, but was simply overlooked.  The fellow in the painting looks so much like everybody imagines Shakespeare to have looked that it is difficult for me to believe nobody noticed it before.  If I had seen it hanging in a gallery next to a tag that read, “Unidentified Man”, I would have turned to whomever was next to me and said, “‘Tis not a myst’ry whose this visage is; / I knoweth William Shakespeare, and ’tis his”.  In iambic pentameter, just like that.  Then I would have high-fived anyone who may have been standing within earshot, and strutted out with a very satisfied expression on my face.

Filed under: Current Events, Literature and Books on March 9th, 2009