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The True Face of William Shakespeare.
The Poet's Death Mask and Likenesses from Three Periods of His Life (London: Chaucer Press, 2006).

d. Comments

'Praise for' The True Face of William Shakespeare

 

'A brilliant academic study which can also be thoroughly enjoyed by any layperon. … an outstanding achievement’   
Dr Paul C Doherty

Her theory makes obvious sense of a long mystery’
A. N. Wilson, Evening Standard

Superimposing the models revealed perfect matches’  
Rob Edwards, New Scientist

HHH  'succeeded in proving that the Davenant Bust depicts William Shakespeare’s authentic lifelike features' 
GEO

'I was not only impressed but also convinced by the author’s arguments, in view of which not a few leading scholars were made to look mere amateurs'   
Professor Peter Milward, The Renaissance Bulletin

HHH's 'elegantly produced volume will surely stand as the definitive work which solves many of the mysteries surrounding the few images of Shakespeare that we possess.     ... the author shows that the so-called Chandos and Flower portraits are ... painted during the playwright's lifetime. This establishes that the 1623 Droeshout engraving ... was copied from the Flower portrait, not vice versa ... [She  demonstrates] that [theDarmstadt death mask's] features exactly reproduce those of the other images of Shakespeare.  
Professor Michael Patterson, Theatre Research International

Over the past decade, Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel … has been a scholarly leader in discovering more about Shakespeare’  
Douglas Galbi, U.S., FCC, Purple Motes

 

 

 


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