1. Despite the recent fuss over the recently “discovered” Cobbe portrait, no one is too sure what Shakespeare actually looked like: no life portrait survives, and the two most plausible likenesses, his funeral bust in Stratford and the engraving on the title page of the First Folio, were most likely done long after his death.

1.雖然最近在愛爾蘭科比家族發現的莎士比亞的生前畫像折騰的很熱鬧，但目前沒有人確切的知道莎士比亞的長相：沒有生前的畫像，最著名的似是而非的畫像，是特拉福德的他墓地前的胸像和印在第一對開本封面的畫像，很可能是他死后很久后才出現的。