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>Because the images of Shakespeare are either doubtful in provenance or lacking expression, no one image seems to reconcile well with readers' imaginations. The relatively dusky features have caused repeated comment. George Steevens said that the picture gave Shakespeare "the complexion of a Jew, or rather that of a chimney sweeper in the jaundice".[10] According to Ben Macintyre, "Some Victorians recoiled at the idea that the Chandos portrait represented Shakespeare. One critic, J. Hain Friswell, insisted 'one cannot readily imagine our essentially English Shakespeare to have been a dark, heavy man, with a foreign expression'."[11] Friswell agreed with Steevens that the portrait had "a decidedly Jewish physiognomy" adding that it displayed "a somewhat lubricious mouth, red-edged eyes" and "wanton lips, with a coarse expression."[12] According to Ernest Jones, the portrait convinced Sigmund Freud that Shakespeare was French: "He insisted that his countenance could not be that of an Anglo-Saxon but must be French, and he suggested that the name was a corruption of Jacques Pierre."[13] The Iraqi writer Safa Khulusi argued that its "un-English" look and "Islamic beard" was evidence for his theory that Shakespeare was an Arab.[14]

>> No.17785421

>>17784721
Shakespeare is as real as Jesus Christ.

>> No.17785426

>>17785421
Jesus Christ's canon is simpler: Matthew, Mark, Luke and Thomas.

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>> No.17786394

>>17784721
Shakespeare was actually an Andalusian granny tranny

>> No.17787289
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>>17784721
Most accurate depiction.

>> No.17787301
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>>17787289
This was his original funerary monument overseen by his friend, and though it has been edited and redone multiple times, it's safe to say it gives a correct image.

>> No.17787309

>>17784721
“Shakespeare”

>> No.17787326
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Shakespeare was black

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"Shakespeare" was de Vere.

>> No.17787902

>>17787289
That one is based on the depiction from the OP.