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...know what William Shakespeare looked like: similar to a hippie uncle - balding, moustached, longish hair in back. How do we know? Mostly from an engraving by Martin Droeshout that appeared with the First Folio, the collection of Shakespeare's work that was published in 1623, seven years after his death. That engraving is reproduced with almost every edition of Shakespeare that offers a picture...
...also matters that the Cobbe painting seems to have been copied more than once. (Wells believes the famous Droeshout engraving was made from one of these copies and not the Cobbe original.) In addition to the Folger, there appear to be three other versions, all from the 17th century. "It suggests that this is someone who was famous enough that there was a demand for copies," says Wells. "We have a fascinating reference in a play from 1603 in which there is the character of a young man who was obviously a fan of Shakespeare. He quotes bits of Romeo...
...book's size is 8 1-2" by 6 1-4" by 2 1-4". It is clearly printed on good paper with the Droeshout copperplate portrait of Shakespeare from the First Folio as frontispiece. The 37 known plays of Shakespeare are included, with "The Two Noble Kinsmen" by Shakespeare and Fletcher, and all of the sonnets and other poems...
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