Bard had 'Romeo good looks'

An image claimed to be the only contemporary portrait of William Shakespeare has been discovered in a 16th-century book about plants. A code-cracking botanist claims to have identified the image of a man with "film star good looks" as the only contemporary portrait of the Bard. In a five-year quest with echoes of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code , Mark Griffiths is convinced that he has made "the literary discovery of the century".