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The real Shakespeare?

Here are the pictures, the well-known Droeschout engraving on the left and the portrait of a young William Shakespeare recently found in the Cobbe family collection. On the lower picture you can see Professor Stanley Wells, chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust with the portrait.

Read the article on BBC here by clicking on this text, then answer the queations below.

These are the article activity related questions.

True or false?

1. Shakespeare no longer looks how we imagined.

2. In the new portrait, Shakespeare does not have a receding hairline.

3. Shakespeare’s nose and chin are rounded in the portrait.

4. The painting was found in an art gallery.

5. The Cobbe family bought the portrait from the gallery.

6. Droeshout’s engraving is the title portrait of the First Folio.

7. The First Folio was published in 1623.

8. Ben Jonson praised Droeshout’s engraving of Shakespeare.

9. In Shakespeare’s time, engraving was the only way to mass produce an image.

10. The lace in the newly-discovered portrait of Shakespeare shows him to be a man of some social standing.