In the future, the new Cobbe Portrait of Shakespeare (NOT!) promoted by Stanley Wells may well go down in history as the “tipping point” in the transition from Myth to Reality in terms of recognizing the true author (Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, who created his self-portrait in the character of Hamlet)…
Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells with the Cobbe Portrait - Hazel Thompson for The New York Times
And because this crucial event must eventually have a name, like Watergate, we’re holding a contest for it in advance.
First Suggestion: PortraitGate!
Give us your thumbs-up for this name (invented by John Shahan, who inspired and put together The Shakespeare Authorship Coalition and The Declaration of Reasonable Doubt About the Identity of William Shakespeare) — or send in your own ideas for it; and we’ll announce the winning name in a few weeks hence.
CobbeGate? WellsGate? Or……….?
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