Someone Stole Shakespeare’s Skull

Four-hundred years after the Bard’s death, archaeologists have blasted his grave with radar (think of the scene in Jurassic Park where they use radar to look at a buried velociraptor skeleton) and are fairly confident he’s missing a skull. This lends credence to some old claims that grave robbers stole Bill’s noggin. Where is it? It could be in some dusty medical collection (doctors often bought corpses from grave robbers, and a genius’s skull would have been an object of fascination), or maybe in the reliquary of a 19th century literature fan. But I’d like to think that somehow, in some way, a random theater unknowingly uses it as Horatio’s skull in Hamlet. That would be fitting.

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