Shakespeare’s Monument at Stratford-on-Avon (1616–1623?)

Frontispiece

Copy of the title-page of “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” 1598. The earliest title-page in which Shakespeare’s name is given as the author of the work.

From J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps’ Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare

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Facsimile of the Autograph Signature “By me William Shakspeare.” From one of the Three Sheets of his Will, dated March 25, 1616.

From Sir Sidney Lee’s Shakespeare’s Life and Work. By permission of Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co.

Facsimile of Mark-Signature of John Shakespeare, the Poet’s Father. From a Deed of Conveyance, dated January 26, 1596

From J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps’ Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare

Facsimile of Mark-Signature of Judith Shakespeare, the Poet’s Second Daughter, afterwards Mrs. Thomas Quiney

From J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps’ Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare

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The Monument in Dugdale’s “History of the Antiquities of Warwickshire” (1656)

With permission of John Murray, Esq.

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The Carew Monument in Stratford Church

The Carew Monument as Represented in Dugdale’s “History of the Antiquities of Warwickshire” (1656)

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From Vertue’s Engraving of the Monument (1725)

With permission of John Murray, Esq.

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London in the year 1610, showing the Globe Theatre in the Foreground

From J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps’ Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare

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