Shakespeare’s Bones

THE PROPOSAL TO DISINTER THEM,

CONSIDERED IN RELATION TO THEIR POSSIBLE BEARING ON HIS PORTRAITURE:

ILLUSTRATED BY INSTANCES OF

VISITS OF THE LIVING TO THE DEAD.

BY C. M. INGLEBY, LL.D., V.P.R.S.L.,

Honorary Member of the German Shakespeare Society, and a Life-Trustee of Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Museum, and New Place, at Stratford-upon-Avon.

LONDON: Trübner & Co., 57 & 59, Ludgate Hill. 1883.

[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.]

“Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs.”

Richard II, a. iii, s. 2.

This Essay IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED TO THE MAJOR AND CORPORATION OF STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, AND THE VICAR OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY THERE,

BY THEIR FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE,

THE AUTHOR.