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Because the images of Shakespeare are either doubtful in provenance or lacking expression, no one image seems to reconcile well with readers ' imaginations.

" Some Victorians recoiled at the idea that the Chandos portrait represented Shakespeare.

One critic, J. Hain Friswell, insisted ' one cannot readily imagine our essentially English Shakespeare to have been a dark, heavy man, with a foreign expression '.

" The Iraqi writer Safa Khulusi argued that its " un-English " look was evidence for his theory that Shakespeare was an Arab.