William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) National Portrait Gallery, London
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts. from "As You Like It" by W. Shakespeare
John Shakespeare’s house, believed to be Shakespeare’s birthplace, in Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare’s funerary monument in Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare’s grave
The reconstructed Globe Theatre, London
The Globe Theatre was the first playhouse built by actors for actors. The Globe opened in autumn 1599, with Julius Caesar one of the first plays staged. Most of Shakespeare's greatest post-1599 plays were written for the Globe, including Hamlet, Othello and King Lear.
Hamlet, artist: William Morris Hunt, 1864
The „gravedigger scene” (Artist: Eugene Delacroix 1839)
Frontispiece of the 1605 printing of Hamlet
Lady Ophelia’s mysterious death by drowning.
Title page from 1609 edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets