England's legendary playwright and poet died on April 23, 1616, at the age of 52. In 1849, Dr. Ludwig Becker found his death ...

Hammerschmidt-Hummel is the author of a book about the authentic features of Shakespeare (The True Face of William Shakespeare.The Poet's Death Mask and Likenesses from Three Periods of His Life.

His characters confront death in ways that reveal universal truths about courage, love, grief, and the meaning of life. Study up on some of his best with these 30 iconic Shakespeare quotes about ...

Death masks — made out of a wax or plaster cast put on a dead person's face — have long been part of human history. Below, morgue workers make a death mask of notorious Depression-era gangster John ...