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Martin Droeshout's engraving of Shakespeare from the title page of the First Folio (1623).At the time, Ben Jonson was satisfied with the picture as a likeness, but some critics have since dubbed it a "pudding-faced effigy," asserting that the playwright appears to have two right eyes.
Shaw despised him, Lamb revered him, Freud didn't think he existed. William Shakespeare himself paid scant heed to pos- terity; he put a greater value on his contemporary status as the hometown...