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Four states of Shakespeare: the Droeshout portrait
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Four states of Shakespeare: the Droeshout portrait

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Sarah Werner

So the mysterious eye of this month’s crocodile belongs to no other than Shakespeare, as some readers immediately recognized: Droeshout’s engraving of Shakespeare on the title page of the First Folio More specifically, it is Shakespeare’s left right eye as depicted…