Transcribed from the 1883 Trübner & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Book cover] [Picture: Shakespeare on his death-bed] SHAKESPEARE’S BONES * * * * * _THE PROPOSAL TO DISINTER THEM_, CONSIDERED IN RELATION TO THEIR POSSIBLE BEARING ON HIS PORTRAITURE: ILLUSTRATED BY INSTANCES OF VISITS OF THE LIVING TO THE DEAD. BY C. M. INGLEBY, LL.D., V.P.R.S.L., Honorary Member of the German Shakespeare Society, and a Life-Trustee of Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Museum, and New Place, at Stratford-upon-Avon. [Picture: Decorative graphic] _LONDON_: TRÜBNER & CO., 57 & 59, _Ludgate Hill_. 1883. [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] * * * * * “Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs.” _Richard II_, a. iii, s. 2. * * * * * This Essay IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED TO THE MAJOR AND CORPORATION OF STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, AND THE VICAR OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY THERE, BY THEIR FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE, THE AUTHOR. INDEX TO BIBLIOGRAPHY.