The Chandos Portrait
The name of the portrait hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in London - the sitter wears a hoop earring.
What is the Chandos Portrait
The Droeshout portrait is not a painting.
What is an engraving?
The Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-Upon-Avon
Where the life size statue of "Shakespeare" lives.
Charles and Hulda Wallace.
Odd couple who devoted much of their lives sifting through documents in the early 1900s in search of any reference to Shakespeare.
The name of the person watching the play in the "Induction."
What/who is Sly?
The way the Chandos portrait came into the more public sphere.
What is an auction? It took the auction house of Christie and Manson 40 days to get through the furnishings
The things that make the Droeshout engraving "magnificently mediocre."
What is eye bigger than the other,
mouth out of proportion
hair uneven
head floating "like a balloon."
subject looks "apologetic, almost frightened."
He described the image as the "deep, deep, subtle, subtle expression of a bladder."
Who is Mark Twain?
How the Wallaces made their fortune by "just looking at it."
What is oil?
Petruchio's friend, Hortensio," is dressed as this in order to get close to Bianca.
What is a schoolmaster?
The fact that the portrait LOOKS like Shakespeare but then again, how does anyone know what Shakespeare looked like ...is known as....(think literary device)
What is a paradox or ironic.
The artist's name and country of origin.
This made the statue look like a "featureless mannequin"
What is Whitwashed?
The percentage sum of what we know about Shakespeare's life.
What is 5% fact and 95% conjecture.
"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband, / I must dance __________ on her wedding day.
What is barefoot?
"Well, the _______ tells us he was bohemian."
earring.
He was commissioned to the work, not because he was a good artist, but he owned this.
What is a rolling press?
In 1749, this happened to the statue.
Henry Condell and John Heminges.
Tranio (as Lucentio) makes the better $$ offer for Bianca over the rival, old Gremio. But Baptista needs assurance of this.
What is If Tranio/Lucentio dies before the father, then assurance will remain with Bianca - and not revert back to the father.?
All of the following are reasons to attribute the portrait to Shakespeare.
Time period, black dye, theatrical appearance and the sitter's .....
WHat is a lace collar?
The time period associated with the creation of this work.
What is 1620's?
This number of words in his own hand.
What is fourteen?
A "scholar's"conclusion after comparing sonnets 37 and 89.
What is a lame person or "a cripple"?
Bianca - "That being mad herself, she's madly mated."
Gremio - "I warrant him, Petruchio is _______."
What is "Kated?"