Poet William Basse wrote: My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie a little further on to make thee room. But it was not until 29th January 1741 (1740 in ...

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Little is known about him except that he too probably died a bachelor. Shakespeare Memorial, Southwark Cathedral (c) BBC Edmund, William’s youngest brother and his junior by sixteen years ...

Flower of the Flower family, who donated the portrait to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1895. The Flower portrait is thought to be based on the Droeshout portrait engraving, whereas in the ...