Does The 'True Face Of Shakespeare' Appear In Botany Book?

A 400-year-old botany book contains what could be the only known portrait of Shakespeare made in his lifetime, according to an academic expert. Botanist and historian Mark Griffiths cracked an 'ingenious cipher' to identify the playwright in an engraving in the 16th-Century work.
But Professor Michael Dobson, director of the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham, said he was 'deeply unconvinced' by the theory. He says: 'One has seen so many claims on Shakespeare based on somebody claiming to crack a code. And nobody else has apparently been able to decipher this for 400 years.'