Culture: Shakespeare’s Face文化：莎士比亚的肖像
[audio]http://file.24en.com/bbc/tae/furniture_815601/bbc_shakespeares_face.mp3[/audio][color=#3f3f3f][font=Verdana, 宋体, helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=12px]It’s not every week that England’s greatest [b]playwright[/b] William Shakespeare [b]hits the headlines[/b], but the[b] Bard of Avon[/b] has been the subject of two news stories in recent days as new [url=http://d.24en.com/s/?wd=information]information[/url] has [b]come to light[/b] about the writer and his working environment.
[p=21, 2, left]In the first development, a [b]portrait[/b] of Shakespeare, which is believed to be the only picture painted of him during his lifetime, was [b]unveiled[/b] in London.[/p][p=21, 2, left]The artwork has been [b]dated[/b] back to 1610, meaning it was painted six years before the writer’s death.[/p][p=21, 2, left]The painting had been owned by a family [b]descended from[/b] Shakespeare’s[b]literary patron[/b] for hundreds of years without them ever knowing who the man in the picture was.[/p][p=21, 2, left]Alec Cobbe, who [b]inherited[/b] the portrait, realised that the painting was a[b]likeness[/b] of Shakespeare after visiting an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery where he saw a portrait that had, until 70 years ago, been accepted as a life portrait of Shakespeare.[/p][p=21, 2, left]Mr Cobbe immediately realised he was looking at a copy of the painting that had been in his family for centuries.[/p][p=21, 2, left]The painting will now go on display in Shakespeare’s hometown Stratford-upon-Avon.[/p][p=21, 2, left]In a separate story, [b]archaeologists[/b] in London believe they have[b]unearthed[/b] the [b]remains[/b] of Shakespeare’s first theatre.[/p][p=21, 2, left]The [b]site[/b] was [b]excavated[/b] by a team from the Museum of London last summer, and is believed to have been built in 1576.[/p][p=21, 2, left]Experts think that Shakespeare himself acted at the theatre, which may have been where the play Romeo and Juliet was [b]premiered[/b].[/p][p=21, 2, left]It is believed that 25 years after construction, the building was[b]dismantled[/b] and moved [b]timber by timber[/b] to the South Bank of the Thames, where a [b]reconstruction[/b] of the theatre now stands.[/p][/size][/font][/color]
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