William Shakespeare - NY, NY
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A monument honoring English poet and playwright, William Shakespeare is locate at the south end of The Mall in Central Park, New York City.
Waymark Code: WMX6N0
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 12/04/2017
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An 8' by 3' by 2' bronze statue of William Shakespeare stands on an 8' high by 8' square granite base. The statue was created by John Quincy Adams Ward and the base was created by Henry Parry. The monument was erected April 23, 1864 to honor the 300th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare who was baptised on April 26, 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England.
Shakespeare is depicted wearing Elizabethan period clothing consisting of short slashed pants and a cloak. He his holding a book in his right hand.
The back of the base is inscribed:
ERECTED BY
CITIZENS OF NEW YORK
APRIL 23 1864
THE THREE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE BIRTH OF
SHAKESPEARE
William Shakespeare is probably the most famous English writer. In 1609 he published 154 sonnets in a single volume called Sonnets. Throughout his life he wrote some of the most famous plays ever performed. He wrote the following comedies, historical plays, and tragedies:
Comedies:
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Cymbeline
Love's Labours Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter's Tale
Historical Plays:
Henry IV, part 1
Henry IV, part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, part 1
Henry VI, part 2
Henry VI, part 3
Henry VIII
King John
Richard II
Richard III
Tragedies:
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Among his sonnets are:
The Sonnets
A Lover's Complaint
The Rape of Lucrece
Venus and Adonis
Funeral Elegy by W.S.