Well, as a rather 'small, fat, bald man' I am pleased with the
similarity. It probably stops there though.
When George Macbeth was in Perth, he expressed a theory that poets
wrote poems in a shape similar to their frame. As we have tall, short,
thin and fat poets in this town, much mirth was had applying this
theory!
Andrew
On 30 June 2011 22:43, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I came across an entertaining article the other day which, after examining
> known discrepancies between actual and painted images of sitters in
> Renaissance portraiture, concluded that, given the propensities for
> flattery, and the only two known images that are even putatively of
> Shakespeare (the funerary image on the tomb and the First Folio portrat)
> conclude that the Swan of Avon was a small, fat, bald man. I found it
> pleasantly discordant with romantic imagery.
>
> best
>
> dave
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