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Shakespeare's Birthplace in the 1950s / 60s.The road in front is now pedestrianised and the house beyond has been demolished. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (SBT) is an independent registered educational charity [1] based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, that came into existence in 1847 following the purchase of William Shakespeare's birthplace for preservation as a national ...
Mary Arden's House and the Shakespeare Countryside Museum: 1994 New Place: 1966 Oxford: 1951 Oxford in Colour: 1987 Shakespeare Country (Discovering) 1940 Shakespeare in Medallic Art: 1982 Shakespeare on Glass: 1984 Shakespeare's birthplace: 1986 Shakespeare's England: 1972 Shakespeare's Magic: 1985 Shakespeare's town and country: 1959
Adjoining the Birthplace is the Shakespeare Centre, a contrasting modern glass and concrete visitors centre which forms the headquarters of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. The driving force behind its construction, and opening in 1964, was Levi Fox , OBE, Director of the Trust from 1945 to 1989, with a view to properly housing its library ...
A major landmark was the opening of the Shakespeare Centre in Henley Street, next to Shakespeare's Birthplace, in 1964; built to better accommodate the SBT's library and collection of documents that attract scholars from all over the world. Fox worked tirelessly to further the cause of Shakespeare, served as secretary and deputy Chairman of the ...
Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, vols I and II (1970), ISBN 978-0-517-26825-4. Gramercy Books. Nearly 800 pages long plus an index, the work was originally published in two volumes; Greek, Roman and Italian in the first and 'The English Plays' in the second. Asimov dedicated the work to his late father, Judah Asimov.
The house was built around 1600. By 1642, it had passed to Thomas Nash, Shakespeare's son-in-law. Its frontage was rebuilt in 1912, replacing 19th-century alterations which had led to the demolition of the original front wall. [3] [1] The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust acquired New Place and Nash's House in 1876. The museum traces the history of ...
Henry VI is a series of three history plays by William Shakespeare, set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Henry VI, Part 1 deals with the loss of England's French territories and the political machinations leading up to the Wars of the Roses, as the English political system is torn apart by personal squabbles and petty jealousy; Henry VI, Part 2 depicts the King's inability to ...
In 1935 Frances Yates asserted that the title derived from a line in John Florio's His firste Fruites (1578): "We neede not speak so much of loue, al books are ful of lou, with so many authours, that it were labour lost to speake of Loue", [17] a source from which Shakespeare also took the untranslated Venetian proverb Venetia, Venetia/Chi non ...