“I don’t think anyone who sees would doubt this is the original,” he says. The tests produced persuasive evidence that the wood panel dated from around 1610 and that the Cobbe painting was the source for the one in the Folger and several others. The two men arranged to have the Cobbe picture subjected to a battery of scientific tests - tree-ring dating to determine the age of the wood panel, X-ray examination at the Hamilton-Kerr Institute at Cambridge Professor Wells believes it to be the one he has revealed today and that it was done from life, in about 1610, when he was 46 years old. The engraver, who was only in his teens when Shakespeare died, must have had a picture, until Both are posthumous –- Shakespeare died in 1616. In the Folio and therefore must have been in place by 1623.
The other is the portrait bust in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon the monument is mentioned One is the engraving by Martin Droeshout published in the First Folio of 1623. Up to now only two images have been accepted as authentic representations of what Shakespeare may have looked like. The trust explains the significance in a statement on its Web site: On Monday in London, Stanley Wells, the chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, unveiled what he claims is the only picture of William Shakespeare painted during the playwright’s lifetime. Tolkien might dislike Shakespeare more than he lets on, if his dislike for the man led him to misremember his own writing.Hazel Thompson for The New York Times The Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells with the portrait belonging to the Cobbe family. Only after this draft does it reach its final form. By the time of the first draft of 'The Battle of the Pelennor Fields', the prophecy is different, that the Wraith will be brought down by one who has never killed a living thing. When Tolkien first outlines Eowyn's role against the Wraith, there is no prophecy whatsoever. The specific prophecy mirroring the Shakespearean one is not present until relatively late in the story. With Eowyn's fulfillment of a prophecy, it's even worse. There are even whole scenes written out chapters before Tolkien got to that point in the narrative, which is generally uncharacteristic of Tolkien's writing process, and shows conscious care given to their position in the story. The final incarnation of the Ents went through a certain large leap in terms of changes that didn't require much fine revision after, which is more unique compared to how other ideas progressed, but we can track conscious revision from the first appearance of the Giant Treebeard well before that. However, if you read through the drafts, this is plainly not true. He also states there that Ents were not consciously invented.
Take the footnote in Letter 163, where Tolkien talks about the Ents fulfilling a Shakespearean prophecy in truth, with the wood marching. It seems, rather, something that he pulled together after having written what he did, perhaps overplaying subtler tugs on him later in the writing process and remembering it as more important than it was. Tolkien's relation of Shakespeare to his own narrative decisions aren't completely trustworthy. Tolkien was a teen then, but if you read his bio you note that he both hated "adaptations" of literature, for making the medium "too human" and hated drama and play (even though he did write and perform at least one play in his younger days). The school newspaper wrote of the address that he: "poured a sudden flood of unqualified abuse upon Shakespeare, upon his filthy birthplace, his squalid surroundings, and his sordid character." Additionally, if anyone would just read Tolkien's biography and remember enough of it they'd know he did in fact have very strong opinions about a variety of things and manners in his life, many of them negative: he hated French cooking, he disliked drama and theatre, he didn't enjoy heavily narrative and incidental conversation, he grew to hate and bemoan automobiles and locomotives, and the list goes on.įrom Tolkien: A Biography and referencing his days as a young teen whilst at King Edward's school, he once discussed Shakespeare during a debate in the school society. To this I'm just going to paste my thread reply as I think it addresses the whole well enough. Tolkien was a child then, but if you read his bio you note that he both hated "adaptations" of literature, for making the medium "too human" and hated drama and play (even though he did write and perform at least one play in his younger days). The school newspaper wrote of the address that he:"poured a sudden flood of unqualified abuse upon Shakespeare, upon his filthy birthplace, his squalid surroundings, and his sordid character." From Tolkien: A Biography and referencing his days as a young teen whilst at King Edward's school, he once discussed Shakespeare during a debate in the school society.
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