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William Shakespeare Famous memorial

Birth: 23 Apr 1564
Stratford-upon-Avon, Stratford-on-Avon District, Warwickshire, England
Death: 23 Apr 1616 (aged 52)
Stratford-upon-Avon, Stratford-on-Avon District, Warwickshire, England
Burial: Holy Trinity Churchyard

Stratford-upon-Avon, Stratford-on-Avon District, Warwickshire, England Show Map GPS-Latitude: 52.186551, Longitude: -1.7070682
Plot: The Chancel
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1450/william-shakespeare: accessed ), memorial page for William Shakespeare (23 Apr 1564–23 Apr 1616), Find a Grave Memorial ID 1450, citing Holy Trinity Churchyard, Stratford-upon-Avon, Stratford-on-Avon District, Warwickshire, England; Maintained by Find a Grave.

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Shakespeare's funerary monument at Holy Trinity Church. The work of sculptor Gerard Johnson (Gheerart Janssen), it was probably commissioned by the author's son-in-law John Hall and installed before 1622. It was mentioned in one of the prefatory poems of the First Folio (1623).

The inscription is a Latin epitaph followed by a poem in English, and his death date:

"A Pylian in judgement, a Socrates in genius, a Maro [Virgil] in art,
The earth buries him, the people mourn him, Olympus possesses him

"Stay Passenger, why goest thou by so fast?
Read if thou canst, whom envious Death hath plast
Within this monument Shakspeare: with whom
Quick nature died: whose name doth deck this tomb Far more than cost: [since] all that he hath writ
Leaves living art, but page to serve his wit.

"OBIIT AÑO DOI 1616
¯TATIS٠53 DIE 23 APR."
_____________________

2006 photograph by Tom Reedy, released into the public domain on Wikipedia.

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Shakespeare was permitted burial inside Holy Trinity because he was a lay rector of the church and prominent Stratford citizen, not a famous playwright. While we know little about his personality, it seems somehow characteristic that his name does not appear on the stone. The nearby crypt of his son-in-law John Hall is inscribed with a lengthy epitaph and the Hall coat of arms; this supports the likelihood that it was Hall who commissioned the Shakespeare monument that overlooks the Chancel.

Detail of 2007 photograph by David Jones, issued on Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

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The original inscription on Shakespeare's grave. He knew of the practice of recycling burial spaces within the church, and was clearly not happy with it. The door to the former charnel house, where exhumed old bones were unceremoniously tossed, was just a few feet from where he was interred.

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The Chancel of Holy Trinity Church, showing the Shakespeare monument (top left) and the graves of Anne Hathaway and the author.

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