How do you picture the Bard?
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64169)
United States
March 9, 2009 5:39pm CST
Do you picture him as a balding, old man? Well, there is a picture that has recently been confirmed as probably a painting done during his lifetime. I thought I'd share this with my friends here.
He's not a bad looking fellow, and obviously not doing too badly either - as well he should for such a famous man of his time.
And yes, Shakespear was a very famous man during his life time.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/09/william.shakespeare.portrait/index.html
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@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
10 Mar 09
I still think of him as a blading old man but this picture may indee change history. The person in the porait looks very good but that could be enbelliment on the part of the artits. I wander what a photo of him would look like?
@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
11 Mar 09
I tink you are right. It was enbeelihsed a bit.
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@Darkwing (21583)
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10 Mar 09
Noooo... Shakespeare is often depicted as having long, curly, dark hair. It's just that a little later in life, his hair started receding at the forehead. I don't recall ever seeing him as bald, in pictures. Maybe a bit thin on top, which is quite likely during the aging process of a man, but whilst playwriting, he had a shock of curly, dark hair.
Brightest Blessings.
@Darkwing (21583)
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13 Mar 09
Well, I will tell you that according to the pictures that I've seen, as a young man, Shakespeare had a shock of dark, curly, long hair. As he aged, pictures depict a man with his hair receding at his forehead. Then, when I went to Stratford-Upon-Avon, there was a statue of him in the gardens by the canal. This statue depicts him as losing his hair by it receding back from his forehead, so my guess is, he started off with a shock of hair in his young life and gradually lost it on top during the aging process.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
17 Mar 09
I have seen this picture before, they all seemed to look a like, somehow the people of that time their eyes especially did not look like the english of today, it is strange isn't it.
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
10 Mar 09
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There's a lot of subtle humor to that face. Nice eyes...full of mischief. Did you get the artist's name?
Maggiepie[/b]
There's a lot of subtle humor to that face. Nice eyes...full of mischief. Did you get the artist's name?
Maggiepie[/b]
@tamarafireheart (15384)
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10 Mar 09
Hi Elic,
Yes he may have been a very handsome man for his time and what a clever man too and his so very famous today as he was back then, what a man.
Tamara
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@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
10 Mar 09
He's not bad looking for a light skinned Anglo guy. That lace collar must have cost a small fortune. It must have taken a woman at least a month or two of full time work to make it.
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
10 Mar 09
Thanks for this link. The news article I saw about it this morning failed to show the picture. Yes, he was a fair fellow...
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@GreenMoo (11833)
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13 Mar 09
I've just finnished reading a very interesting book called Shakespear's Wife by Germaine Greer. So many of the stories about Ann Shakespear have no evidence to back them up, but this book actually researches her life.
I'd always imagined Shakespear as having longish hair, balding on top, mid height but slimmish and fairly well dressed. I guess I've been influenced by all the illustrations you see, but I don't think I'd ever pictured a face on my imginary Shakespear before.
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