http://jezebel.com/5237970/william-shakespeare-dissed-by-people-magazine-readers People Magazine ran a “Historical Hotties” survey and, using the recently debated Cobbe portrait, 73% of readers declared him “Not.” The great thing about images of Shakespeare, though, is that there are so many to choose from. :) Maybe they’d like Chandos better? Although I suspect that poor Will is going to lose this one to Marlowe regardless of which image you pick.
I’m not troubled by this, for the obvious reason: the Cobbe portrait ain’t Shakespeare.