Shakespeare’s funerary monument, erected shortly after his death in Stratford, offers us some clues that the “Stratford man” and Shakespeare were one and the same.

Another, the Chandos portrait, which was painted between 1600 and 1610, can not definitely be said to depict Shakespeare. It was previously thought that the bust in Shakespeare's funerary monument ...

The second is the bust on Shakespeare’s funerary monument in the choir of the Holy Trinity Church in Straford-on-Avon. Both were created shortly after Shakespeare’s death in 1616.

Shakespeare’s funerary monument in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Photo: Brian Seed/Bridgeman Images In the final act of “The Tempest,” the wizardly Prospero may have drowned his book of spells.