Friday, April 23, 2010

446th birthday

Here is a recently discovered painting believed to be of William Shakespeare (1564-1616). April 23rd is traditionally celebrated as his birthday. You can compare it here with the usual dull portrait they include in all the schoolbooks and read the story (founded?) of how the identification was made.

2 comments:

Maria said...

Oh, so old. It's bad enough being 68.

Priscilla said...

I wouldn't know.