Shakespeare.jpgIs this the only image of the Bard from life? Time magazine reports on the portrait, unveiled today in this newly-discovered–or rather attributed–portrait of William Shakespeare, whose likeness had heretofore never been rendered. (The NYT has a news update.) Shakespeare is in fact a man of mystery, despite the fact that so much of him is on the page–or perhaps because of it. With so little known of his biography, and so much revealed about his soul, anything is possible. He may even have been a Catholic… 

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