BREAKING NEWS: Master Shakespeare's real aspect

William Shakespeare (c. 1564 - 23 April 1616), as you may know, is considered to be the greatest poet and playwright in the history of English literature. Maybe you also know that he is the author of such world-famous plays as Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet or Othello. Maybe you even know that he was born in Stratford-upon-Avon (England). But...

Do you know what William Shakespeare REALLY looked like? Would you like to know?

According to some experts, he looked like this:

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And as we are talking about Master Shakespeare, here you have one of his beautiful sonnets.

SONNET 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Oooooookaaaaaay, this might be difficult for you to read, so I offer you a free translation into Spanish by Lucy in the Sky (Argentina)

Soneto 116
Que para la unión de las almas sinceras
yo no admita impedimentos. El amor no es amor
si se altera al enfrentar la alteración,
o flaquea cuando el que parte se aleja:
¡Oh, no! Es un faro siempre en pie,
que ve pasar las tempestades y nunca es derribado;
es la estrella para el navío a la deriva,
de valor incalculable, aunque se mida su altura.
El amor no es juguete del tiempo,
aunque el carmín de labios y mejillas
caiga bajo el golpe de su guadaña;
el amor no se altera con sus cortas horas y semanas,
sino que todo lo soporta hasta el final de los tiempos.
Si estoy errado, y que eso se pruebe,
yo nunca he escrito, ni ningún hombre ha amado.

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