“Why all the fuss about Professor Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel’s “discovery” that the Davenant bust in the Garrick club matches the Darmstadt death mask in Germany and must, therefore, be a true representation of Shakespeare’s physiognomy? Since the provenance of both artefacts depends on the size of a growth on Sheakespeare’s forehead, some people will argue that the revelation ought to be of interest only to a pathologist. And they would be right. What Shakespeare looked like is of no consequence. All that matters is the text and how the author intended it to be interpreted.”