Shakespeare Found

[@cpannell3cogecoca]

There is so much fiction in this, I'm surprised the University of Warwick puts its logo in the bottom left corner.

[@squareleg5757]

Q: How do you know when Stanley Wells is lying? A: His lips move.

[@floatingholmes]

Sir Thomas Overbury portrait. Folger library has confirmed. But then, Stanley Wells has many reasons not to agree. They come in the form of little papers with numbers printed finely upon them.

[@floatingholmes]

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[@Clivebbb123]

Shame there weren't any pertinent questions, such as "Why does the Cobbe portrait show WS with a full head of hair? And why does the Droeshout engraving in the Folio, if based on this, deviate from both this, and from showing WS as a 'courtier', as the Cobbe does?" And "Weren't the other Cobbe copies, all previously known, long since accepted as being of Sir Thomas Overbury? And if so, why the change of mind?"

[@MandyJMaddison]

The Droeshout engraving is much closer to the Chandos portrait in every way, including the hairline. The Cobbe portrait has a very generic look about it. The features are so regular that they could be those of any handsome man of the time. The Chandos portrait AND the engraving have very distinctive facial characteristic, the eyes that slant upwards at the outer corners, the very distinctively shape nd to the nose, the slight bump in the bridge of the nose, he nostrils which flare upward to show the philtrum, the wide cupid's bow that is concave in form, the prominent point of the upper lip, the fullness of the lower lip. This new portrait has none of these facial characteristics that define the other portraits.

[@enheduannapax7988]

That is not the portrait of a 50-year old Elizabethan commoner. The premise seems to be - it’s been rumored to be for a long time, so it is. Not one point presented makes sense or rings true.

[@gypsycruiser]

Oh! Suddenly a portrait and soon we will find manuscripts in Shakesper‘s handwriting in Scotland!

[@MrAbzu]

The Shakespeare who left Stratford did so after an undisclosed transformative experience. Ordinary country folk don't just wonder off a hundred miles to London and take up with a theater company unless something is up. If we take Ben Jonson at his word there was something funny about Shakespeare and he put it in writing, "he wrote out of his head perfectly and never had to scratch through anything". Sounds like a modified Shakespeare to me, maybe a rather large walnut fell on his head and he woke up with a rare gift. Why were so many previously unpublished plays in the First Folio? Who had custody of them? The North/Leicester's Men origin of source plays/material would indicate that rewriters would not need any specific knowledge of anywhere because all of the necessary information is already there. Shakespeare or Shakespeare proxy was an artful rewriter who had a close association with Ben Jonson and his circle, John Florio for example. Good show

[@MandyJMaddison]

We do know that Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon became wealthy through his dealings, and presumably through his part ownership of the Globe, because there are documents relating to the properties that h bought back in Stratford. However, that collar of Spanish needle-lace in the Cobbe portrait and the gold braid with which his tunic is embroidered are not the signs of someone who was able to buy a large house in the town of Stratford, and invest money in some fields for rental. These are the signs of someone born to grand estate. King James was depicted wearing a rather similar collar.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

MandyJMaddison True enough, but a painting is a bit like Photoshop. He didn't have to be wearing that collar when he sat for the portrait. He could hange been in his jammies, and said "paint me rich". I looked though a few books on "sumptuary laws" to see if there was any prohibition on a gentleman wearing...or being depicted as wearing, one would presume...clothing above his station. I couldn't find any. Actors, after all, er...habitually wore the clothing of the nobility in order to portray them on stage. The painting is still Overbury, so it's a moot point.

[@nasipkismet2436]

These potraits are of absolutely different people and ''Principium Amicitias'' means ''the alliances of princes''.

[@frankmedrano6921]

que es lo que tu quieres corazón que te fría un chicharron una torta de jamon o pollo frito, no mi amorcito ahora no me sube el colesterol ya no me dejo el doctor, esque e sube el colesterol mamacita me sube el colesterol

[@alfonso0131]

si le sabe al chispos

[@rob5894]

What a bunch of bilge.

[@amaxamon]

Aaaaand - here come the conspiracy loonies!!!