Shakespeare's Face Unraveling the Legend and

A nonfiction "Girl in Hyacinth Blue," this fascinating literary detective story tells the entertaining history of a recently discovered painting of Shakespeare held by the same family for 400 years, adding new drama to the Bard's life.

Stephanie Nolen is the Johannesburg bureau chief for The Globe and Mail, the national newspaper of Canada. She recently reported from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and currently covers the AIDS pandemic in Africa. She is the author of Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race.

Foreword
A Note on the Writers
The Mystery Uncovered
""The God of Our Idolatry"
"Stanley Wells
Prime Suspects
Picturing Shakespeare in 1603
Andrew Gurr
In Search of Master Shakespeare
Scenes from the Birth of a Myth and the Death of a Dramatist
Jonathan Bate
Family Traces
Looking the Part
Marjorie Garber
Forensic Revelations
An Actor's Face?
Robert Tittler
A Painting with a Past
Tarnya Coope
The Portrait Meets Its Public
The Conundrum of the Label
Alexandra F. Johnston,Arleane Ralph and Abigail Anne Young
The Man Who Will
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Shakespeare's Face Unraveling the Legend and History of Shakespeare's Mysterious Portrait

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