I’ve recently been rediscovering Shakespeare’s work. Got more interested in his play -Hamlet, after visiting the Kronborg Castle in Denmark, where Shakespeare chose to use as the setting for Hamlet.
I also learnt that Shakespeare had an eye disease called Sjogren Disease or at that times was known as Mikulicz’s Syndrome which affects the Lacrimal glands. Deformation of his left eye with a protruding swelling in the nasal part of his left eye, as seen in many paintings, indicates a growth on the left eye. The portraits are not, and can never be , forensic evidence of likeness.
A 3D technique of photogrammetry made visible craters of the swelling, indicating some sort of eye tumor.
This was stunning evidence.
