• ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    Everyone mentioned so far is also a recent writer who actually has photographs available.

    Is there any photograph available from Shakespeare? I am a bit oblivious now when that technology started and if Shakespeare had access to it. Otherwise there are only drawings available and I think we all have seen how different the same person can look on historic documents.

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      There are no photographs of Shakespeare. He lived way before the invention of photography.

      As far as I understand there is a painting that might be of him, but it’s difficult because it doesn’t say “this is a painting of Shakespeare” on the bottom. It’s just a painting of a random man who probably was Shakespeare, but we don’t have proof.

      Even if the painting is of him we are assuming that it’s an accurate painting.