Poet William Basse wrote: My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie a little further on to make thee room. But it was not until 29th January 1741 (1740 in ...

the birthplace of William Shakespeare. Dame Judi Dench and Sir Kenneth Branagh also unveiled a newly-restored statue of the Bard. Donated to the town in 1769 by actor and playwright David Garrick ...

A statue of William Shakespeare statue in Lincoln Park, Chicago, 1905 There’s no question that some early Americans were stage-struck. Consider, for instance, this bizarre episode of American ...

LONDON, Oct. 2. -- Punch publishes a design for a statue, drawn, it says, after certain hints by George Bernard Shaw. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...