close-up of mug

Shakespeare's life and work

...celebrated in an 1824 mugshot.
This china mug carries a likeness
of the Poets' Corner statue.

The Shakespearian Club issued the mug,
and today remains the oldest Shakespeare society still active.

They also celebrated by lobbying for Shakespeare's Birthplace to be saved for the nation in 1847.

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Why change his image?
To celebrate him?
To promote him?
To play at politics?

To reinvent him?
the early likenesses
 his first published portrait One from the family gallery
his funeral bust
 A stately statue

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