Shakespeare's Skull May Be Missing

[jason_c]

Archaeologists who scanned William Shakespeare's grave in Stratford-upon-Avon say his skull appears to be missing.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...324-story.html

I find stories such as this as annoying im afraid. The story is nothing more than clickbait. The grave is almost certainly empty. It was reported as being empty in the 18th century when work was being done to the church. This is not to countenance a conspiracy theory. The area is slap bang next to a frequently flooding river. The earth in and around that church is in constant movement. Such a flooded area also decays everything buried within it.

Wasn't he supposed to have regularly played the Ghost in Hamlet, or was it Macbeth?

Hamlet. He is also thought to have played kingly roles and the character of Adam in As You Like It.

[Rosella]

I don't think he would have minded that fate so much.

Wasn't he supposed to have regularly played the Ghost in Hamlet, or was it Macbeth?

[Rosella]

Wasn't the church where Shakepeare was buried damaged by Puritans in Cromwell's time? It was probably them! Someone was supposed to have aimed a rock at Shakespeare's monument and smashed the nose of his bust, up in the niche. When they repaired it later, as best they could, it was about an inch shorter than it had been.

[Errata]

I hope it was so he could actually play Yorick

I don't think he would have minded that fate so much.

[GUT]

mmmmmmmmm Bacon

Steadmund Brand

Just had some with poached eggs for breaks, mmmmmm delicious.

[Steadmund Brand]

mmmmmmmmm Bacon

Steadmund Brand

[GUT]

Slight side note, Oxford's name has been associated with Shakespeare because of some works found by Anne Duncombe, who was actually a relative of Oxford's, and also of Bacon's.

Carry on.

[Mayerling]

[QUOTFoulE=Damaso Marte;374532]But what about the Earl of Oxford's skull?

Heretic! The Bard Shakespeare himself wrote the Works![/QUOTE]

Unless it was Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe (despite being dead), Montague Dru...., oh sorry I confused lists of potential suspects in mysteries.

Jeff

[Pcdunn]

[QUOTFoulE=Damaso Marte;374532]But what about the Earl of Oxford's skull?[/QUOTE]

Heretic! The Bard Shakespeare himself wrote the Works!

[Damaso Marte]

But what about the Earl of Oxford's skull?

[Mayerling]

Whoever stole it probably found himself and his family forever cursed afterwards, and then belatedly realized it's not nice to risk all to test a written curse!

Jeff

[Joshua Rogan]

I hope it was so he could actually play Yorick

[Errata]

I'm betting an otherwise respectable seeming Victorian took it. Probably for a seance.

[Steadmund Brand]

Don't worry, it will turn up wrapped in a shawl in a year or so and a book will be written called Case Closed....but then... will the DNA match????? hmmmmm stay tuned!!!

Steadmund Brand

[GUT]

Blame Yorick, tit for tat after all.