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Shakespeare and Company is an English-language bookstore opened in 1951 by George Whitman, located on Paris's Left Bank. The store was named after Sylvia Beach's bookstore of the same name founded in 1919 on the Left Bank, which closed in 1941. Whitman adopted the "Shakespeare and Company" name for his store in 1964.
George Whitman (December 12, 1913 – December 14, 2011) was an American bookseller who lived most of his life in France. He was the founder and proprietor of the second Shakespeare and Company, which was named after Sylvia Beach's celebrated original bookstore of the same name (1919 to 1941) on Paris's Left Bank.
12 Rue de l'Odéon, Paris, location of the now-defunct Shakespeare and Company, with memorial plaque partially visible on the far right Plaque at 12 Rue de l'Odéon, Paris VI, which reads "In 1922, in this house, Mlle. Sylvia Beach published Ulysses by James Joyce."
Monnier had been among the first women in France to found her own bookstore four years before. Beach's bookstore was located at 8 rue Dupuytren, Paris VI. [1] [failed verification] Shakespeare and Company quickly attracted French and American readers, including aspiring writers to whom Beach offered hospitality, encouragement, and books.
I have moved the original defunct "Shakespeare and Company" Paris bookstore to its own article [ edit ] Just so people don't get massively confused, I have moved the entirety of the information about Sylvia Beach's 1919-1941 bookstore to Shakespeare and Company (1919–1941) .
She began co-managing Shakespeare and Company with her father in 2003 at the age of 21. [11] She continues to run it today with her partner, David Delannet, in the same manner her father had, allowing young writers to live in the bookstore in exchange for helping out around the shop, agreeing to read a book a day, and writing a one-page autobiography for the shop's archives.
Shakespeare and Company, Shakespeare & Company, or Shakespeare & Co. may refer to: Shakespeare and Company (1919–1941), an influential English-language bookshop in Paris, France founded by Sylvia Beach; Shakespeare and Company (bookstore), an English-language bookstore in Paris, founded by George Whitman in 1951
Paris Rue de l Odeon 12 plaque James Joyce plaque - 71 rue de Cardinal Lemoine, Paris 5. Stratford-on-Odéon was both a literary circle and James Joyce's affectionate nickname for the Rue de l'Odéon in Paris's Left Bank, its two bookstores (Adrienne Monnier's La Maison des Amis des Livres and Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company; Monnier and Beach thought of it as Odéonia [1]) and the ...