William Shakespeare. For centuries now there has been a recurring controversy over who wrote Shakespeare's plays. You can put me firmly in the "well, Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays" camp, but the question of putting a face to the name is a bit more puzzling -the fact is, we don't really know what the man looked like. London's National Portrait Gallery is holding an exhibition of Shakespeare portraits- Searching for Shakespeare, which opens today. The exhibition includes paintings traditionally thought (by at least some folks) to have been of Shakespeare, a few of which the experts believe might actually picture the Immortal Bard himself. The others? Understudies, I suppose...
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