What did Shakespeare look like?

22.03.09 / News from all over / Author: Kevster

For the longest time, lovers of the old bard’s works were thinking that somewhere, somehow, a likeness of the one of the most prolific writers in the English language would have survived the test of time to witness the adoration of the modern crowds.

According to a Shakespeare scholar from England, painting from Ireland might potentially be the likeness that people have been looking for. If this were so, then the painting, which was done through oil on canvas, features a Shakespeare no older than fifty years old. And he’s one handsome devil of a bard.