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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.
Shakespeare and Company was an influential English-language bookstore in Paris founded by Sylvia Beach in 1919; Beach published James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses at the bookstore. The store closed in 1941.
In May 1921, Shakespeare and Company moved to 12 rue de l'Odéon, just across the street from Monnier's Maison des Amis des Livres. Plaque at 12 Rue de l'Odéon, Paris VI, location of Shakespeare and Company, which reads "In 1922, at this location, Mlle. Sylvia Beach published Ulysses by James Joyce."
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.
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.
The Square René Viviani offers one of the best views of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in all of Paris. Around the corner, in the Rue de la Bûcherie, stands the well-known English-language bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, established in 1951.
Shakespeare & Co Books at 37, Rue de la Bûcherie Nos. 13-15: amphitheatre of the ancient Faculty of Medicine No. 37: Shakespeare and Company , a bookstore specializing in English language books while simultaneously employing and boarding English-speaking writers in Paris.
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