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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.
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."
Sylvia Beach (14 March 1887 – 5 October 1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II.
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.
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
There is also a bookstore by this name in Vienna, Austria. Whether or not it bears any relationship to the Paris or New York stores I don’t know. - The Paris store is the only "original" - though it has inspired store names across the world (like the NYC chain/Vienna Store). AKeen 13:59, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company, among the world’s most famous and critically acclaimed theaters, will return to Chicago next fall for the first time in 30 years with a new staging of ...
Whitman, born in 1981 in Paris, [2] is the only child of George Whitman (1913–2011), who in 1951 founded the Shakespeare and Company bookstore located at 37 rue de la Bûcherie in Paris. Her mother was Felicity Leng, a young British woman who had a brief marriage with George.