Should Shakespeare’s grave in Stratford be opened so that his skull could be compared with the portraits and the bust? Ingleby argues that it should, and supports the case with the histories of other exhumations, among them Schiller’s remains and graves in Westminster Abbey, adding a bibliography of the controversy as it ran through the press.
A curious, earnest piece of Victorian Shakespeare scholarship, and a reminder that the curse on the gravestone has never yet been tested. Download the free EPUB.