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Shakespeare's England

From a passage Mark Twain:

"The nice thing is that England is not duplicated. It is very simple details, only grass and trees and shrubs, and roads, and hedges and gardens and houses, churches and castles, and here and there a ruin and, above all, a wonderful sweet story. But the beauty is incomparable, and his own. "

From: Shakespeare Country:

It 's a chance that the small town that candescribed as the heart of England was so rich, but comfortable as the landscape of green Warwickshire are set. Would it not be easy to determine as to who first applied the nickname of "green" community, but descriptive so happy that you believe, the name of the County of Warwick, without the addition, and so it is difficult to think of Stratford Stratford-upon-Avon, without thinking, like Shakespeare. The citizens of the place may be able to think about howa sort of city business, but for others it is a backdrop to one of the greatest men of the world, the great poet and dramatist whose genius dominates the homage of the entire civilized world. There is a backdrop of beauty and of great interest, some 'stylized, perhaps, a show-place. Few can these people, "with soul so dead", a phrase familiar Sir Walter Scott, impassive while wandering through places associated with great admiration.

Mostvisitors from afar to Stratford-upon-Avon train, and the voices of those stations are probably the worst first impression of the city. This is especially the case for the central Great Western Road, Alcester, leaving us in a wide road with large general hospital to our left, then new red brick houses, and then plan from his forehead, low buildings, shops and ugly rises from the foot to go. Wehappen in a strange way of variable width, and it could go right over the city from west to east - on a street with five names, Alcester Road, Greenhill Street, Wood Street, Bridge Street, Bridge, and walk - and is Clopton bridge over the Avon without the slightest inkling that we were a bit 'more peaceful, comfortable to overcome a common kind not uncommon in the English Midlands.

A look at the windows, with their cards in-numerable and variedSouvenirs, showed that the city was different, as it seemed. A little to our left, we passed the shrine center of this heart of many shrines - the birthplace of William Shakespeare - as a glance to the right along the High Street, which branches off at the narrowest point where the part of our Highway Forest Street, Bridge Street would be broad insights into some of the oldest buildings in town. If our travelers expected to haveIgnorance about the importance of Stratford, looks come Clopton Bridge, downstream along the shore to see, would be an original building - a building of red brick and white stone building with a high-green gables, slate roof and many small towers. This building in a city would certainly pique our curiosity of the traveler, and would ask that you discover the Shakespeare Memorial. In addition, lower the river, would see the tower of the Church of StratfordRising from the trees - the church, is buried in Shakespeare - and would certainly stay at a wish and the city, which had appeared at first glance, have little that was particularly attractive.

Clopton bridge itself could take us. This is a fine structure of stones, many strings with low parapets, on which we have beautiful scenes up and down the course of the soft-flowing Avon, the windings, which we have but brief look at the water, whereas lowMeadows are guaranteed by green trees, omnipresent Warwickshire. Valley View towards the monument and the church can see the old bridge is built near one another in red brick for the construction of a disused railway line near and said to one of the first of our railway bridges, a fact which potentially reduces downstream of our impatience with the terms of his disability, but also to hinder our view of the beautiful old bridge, when you look upstream from the game boxes on the Left BankThe Avon.

Here you can, "said an old-time clergy Stratford and derived its name from a word of English with them means Avon aufona Fluvius much like us. The river was covered by a wooden bridge old tradition says that unsupported Queen Matilda led them to the troops, but that was more significant from a public Stratford and replaced by the current stone bridge, iron plates on which a record of construction and repair and extensionthe first half of last century. Until the expansion gives standing on a stone column with the following story enough: "Sir Hugh Clopton, Knight, Lord Mayor of London, this bridge was built at his own expense, correct the reign of Henry VII's.

For Avon, we will return later. Going east again on foot-and-Bridge Street Bridge, we visit the "shrine associated with the memory of those who not only is Stratford, but most famous son in England, we are passing thebroad Bridge Street, and find the path forks on both sides of the simple, white, lots of windows of the bank. The route left is Wood Street, through which we came out of the station. The law is Henley Street, a short way, two-thirds of the way in which we increased to achieve a clean and beautiful half-timbered and gabled house a lot, like most of the houses in this way to make big Stratford, directly from the street. And 'the' place of birth. " On both sides there is now ground gardensince the shrine opened may be less likely to eliminate any fire hazard from which the city suffered heavily three times during the period of Shakespeare. The last of these occasions - in July. 1614 - no less than fifty-four houses were destroyed, so that there is no doubt largely those fires, we have ensured that can no longer walk to the Tudor building. Fortunately, among those spared are the most interesting.

To access the home must be the ticket neededobtained from the hut just to the east, the Office of the directors and guardians of the birthplace of Shakespeare. Although brick facade and changed a lot, this house was standing at the time of the poet, his neighbors who live there under the name Horneby.

The birth itself is one of the most important shrines of the city, a place visited every year by thousands of people from around the world. From his small room, and small-scale irregular, one can easily imagine howpeople comfortable and spacious days of great Elizabeth, lived in the fine collection of books and documents, signatures, memorabilia and curiosity, we gain in understanding between people, for Shakespeare himself, his family and people he knew. Upstairs, we are in the same room where 23 April 1564, the poet saw the light. Here generations of visitors scribbling their name, according to an old bad habit of Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickenswere victims. Now the autograph records of who visits the home properly in a guest book kept the destination.

It is not possible for anyone with the imagination of talent, be indifferent in these spaces - spaces where the poet was born, when he came, what we think we probably had a happy childhood, which was the Grammar School, about a quarter mile away, and from which to woo a mile above the fields of Shottery. The intimate knowledge ofpersonality of Shakespeare, we can only slightly, the story of his life may take much, but here, at least we feel that we see a lot of space, as he saw it, when, instead of the simple creation of Tudor times, we have some Omnium Gatherum room of a museum. It 's a museum full of interest in the Shakespearean scholar and attracts visitors from having copies of the books he had read the poet himself dwell on his old signatures and otherlegal documents on the famous "portrait Ely Shakespeare, through images, maps and other relics of the past Stratford-upon-Avon.

So little we know about the detail of the history of the life of Shakespeare is the story of his homeland, from owner to owner, fortunately by the time of its birth, the purchase of the house from across the nation in 1847. It 'true that there is no shortage of theorists trying to prove that his birth did not really takePlace here, but circumstantial evidence strongly supports the belief that he did. Here his father, John Shakespeare lived and conducted his business here from wood stapler and Glover. In the immediate vicinity have been modified to improve conditions in the sixteenth century, Shakespeare above for the holding of a dunghill outside his front door with a fine! Henley Street is now a clean and pleasant, when the modern garage motor is slightly influenced the West, and the pastalong the road in a Saturday evening, I noticed, if not an old man, probably a fishy smell of fried fish from a shop almost opposite the place of birth, while the end of Henley Street to the sounds have been a hymn of 'Salvation Army. Even men can not live feeling in Stratford.

Skip to the back door of the house, we are in a garden, the keepers of which there have been a particular interest in it to plant designated representatives of all the flowers and treesthe poet in his works. Here, a study in September, I found "the primrose pale" in full bloom, and up here in the summer months are a better representation of this "old-fashioned flowers and herbs to see unfadingly prosper in the words of Ophelia and Loss:

"And 'rosemary, this is the remembrance, pray,' I love you, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts .... There are fennel for you, and columbines: there is a rue for you: And here some for me: we can callE 'or herb of grace' Sundays: O you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy: I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died. "

For you there's rosemary and rue to keep this

Apparent and enjoy all .... long winter

Here's flowers for you;

Hot lavender, mint, savory, marjoram;

The marigold, that to bed Wi 'the sun,

And he makes you cry ... Daffodils,

What comes before swallowing companies, andtake

The winds of March with beauty dim, purple,

But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes,

Or Cytherea breath, pale primroses,

The die before you can watch unmarried

Bright Phoebus in his strength, disease

Most of the waitresses accident, bold and oxlips

The crown-imperial, lilies of all kinds,

Flower de Luce-be.

All these flowers of the poet - flowers, now familiar epithets attached to itself - can be found inThe lovely garden at the back of the birth. Go through it again at Henley Street and again on our way for the construction of the bank and from there the route, which passed the student must be Shakespeare, at times perhaps -

with his satchel

And shining morning face, creeping like snail

Unwillingly to school -

go short High Street, on the other side, where we see the ugliness of simple design City Hall and the old bigGuild Chapel.

Before that far, but there are places to arrest our attention. Just before the town hall to the right of us - people with a sense of humor, a smile in passing the Shakespeare Restaurant, run by a noted Bacon! - A projection of half-timbered house is worth more than a momentary glance. It 'a beautiful specimen of a Tudor house, with its richly carved beams, vaulted upstairs. This is known as the home of Harvard, because it was the home ofKatherine Rogers, mother of John Harvard, founder of Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It 'an interesting fact that, as Shakespeare went to Stratford tradition of Southwark, said Rogers, a neighbor, Warwickshire, Katherine should marry a man of Southwark. He suggests that there is a specific reason for the creation of Stratfordians who went to London for the city was the southern end of London Bridge. The attractive oldHouse, a jewel of Stratford, has just architecturally, and most were converted to Stratford, as appropriate, in an appointment for American visitors pilgrimage are a significant part of those who make too. Scenic outside, the interior with its old world created, it is also worth checking.

Almost opposite the house Harvard-Rogers media, if not entirely worthless, City Hall, built one hundred and fifty years, andIllustrate the beginning of one of the least pleasant time English architecture. At the end of the north down High Street, the statue of David Garrick is on the conclusion of the famous "Shakespeare Jubilee" submitted 1769. Inside the room are some interesting pictures, like Gainsborough's portrait of Garrick.

City Hall is right next to the Shakespeare Hotel, part of which is the Five Gables ", a picturesque half-timbered house, the bottom is theTransactions. The rooms of this hotel has long been identified, often with special joy, for great works of Shakespeare. So the bar - bar "Measure for Measure", the coffee room "As You Like It," and so on.

With this waste in the name of roads, which can not fail to find a visitor, we find that the High Street in the town hall ended, and already we are Chapel Street, with its beautiful stone tower of the old Guild Chapel, a short way in the future. A bit 'outFive Gables ", and also left corner of Chapel Street and Chapel Lane to reach the site of New Place, the house that Shakespeare bought in its prosperity, and where he died April 23, 1616 The house was immediately before them, New Place Museum, as Nash's House was made famous home of the first husband of Shakespeare's granddaughter, Elizabeth Hall - Thomas Nash, who should not be confused with the Elizabethan poet of the samename.

The location of the house and garden are fenced from the street by a low wall, topped by an ornate iron railing, are included in the decoration of the initials "WAS" and the poet and the city coat of arms. The parapets are something collected from uglified with gilding. A bit 'down Chapel Lane, at the foot of the monument is the entrance to the pleasant landscaped garden, New Place. Here is a mulberry tree stump as a long stem of the plantassociated with Shakespeare. Hare can be seen as a pillar of the old town hall, a sculpture of the period before the old Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, and a large stone, engraved on the verses in honor of poet Richard Jago. The mulberry tree planted by the poet drew so much attention from visitors, as the interest in Shakespeare in the eighteenth century that the UN Gastrell reverend, who then owned New Place "damn themselves to eternal glory" ofCut down, and bore his contemptuous vandalism beyond a few years later, following a dispute with the Corporation for the issue price was demolished in New Place, after his retirement from the city 'of Stratford fairly accurate. The mulberry tree was from a local dealer, who got very moment made for lovers of Shakespeare - in fact, having memories far more real wood is delivered may be charged. Drinkthe big party from a cup from the famous tree, Garrick sang his words:

So this fair cup 't was cut from a tree

What, my sweet Shakespeare, was planted by thee;

As a relic I kiss and bow to the shrine,

What is your hand is always divine.

All yield to the mulberry

Bend to you,

Selig mulberry;

Matchless was

Who has planted;

And you know what he is immortal!

Ofan indignant writer said many years ago: "The old rage, anger destroys mulberry tree in Shakespeare, and a bilious attack powerless to move to the poet the ground last house, half Stratford quited the general disgust of its inhabitants. These could harm wild Gastrell was only the work of eccentricity to be on the brink of insanity. we are in solidarity with the poor in a position of an act so callous and senseless, because it was, as we know, the visible constantThe presence of divinity, the sacred, the ramparts of Zion, and fortified their walls with healing, ten thousand memories vivid sanctifies the hours of abandoned houses in really big, earthy people for their residences, and dedicate their relics for the heart and imagination of posterity. "

New Place, which was originally built by Sir Hugh Clopton at the time of Henry VII, has been purchased, modified, and for his enduring fame of William Shakespeare in 1597. Before the propertyMr. Gastrell, the infamous memory, who had regained control of the Clopton family, and among others the famous Mulberry Sir Hugh Garrick, Macklin, and other dignitaries spoke in 1742.

If Shakespeare's daughter, Susannah Hall, was still alive in the new site - who died there in 1649 - then came the riots of the Civil War, and here Queen Henrietta Maria was on the way to take the first Charles at Oxford in 1643, and made his residence in New Place, as probablythe principal residence of the city. Prince Rupert, was also here, and for once quiet town was a center of military activity, with about 5,000 soldiers in their neighborhoods. A year ago was the city must have been in a delicate hint of excitement is the battle of Edgehill less than a dozen miles away. One historian says: "At this time the Queen took up residence for about three weeks in New Place, Stratford, while Mrs. Shakespeare lived there." The writer was obviouslyconfuse the wife of the poet and her daughter, Mrs. Shakespeare had died twenty years ago. unharmed in Stratford not these difficult times, one of the Clopton bridge arches are destroyed, and the historical room, air blown in this - a pillar, as has been said, is seen in the New Place to garden.

Divided by the width of a rotation from the site of New Place is the beautiful Old Town Guild Chapel of the Holy Cross, and behind it a long series of finehalf-timbered houses, the Guild Hall, the Gymnasium and homes for 24 poor elderly. A little 'in plain, swept away old paintings, is as magnificent specimen of the fifteenth century, the architecture of the old chapel demands attention. From his tower in the morning and evening during the winter is still the sound of the curfew bell to be heard. Here it is assumed that Shakespeare attended public worship, as you are used to a bench be placed in the chapel, with newPlace.

This connection of the house with the chapel, perhaps the time when Sir Hugh Clopton, dated resided there when he was a great benefactor for the construction, reconstruction of the nave and tower. On the south side of the chapel is the entrance to the old half-timbered Guildhall and Grammar School - the latter over the former. This building will be constructed on the end of the thirteenth century by Robert de Stratford, probably brothersHoly Cross. Shakespeare's associations are all around us. In the large school-room, half-timbered house with open roof, he received his medical training, see the Guildhall, it was suggested that may have been present when the stage company of players are known, have given their services in the period have that his father was bailiff of the country. Nice fence in the rear of the Guildhall we see another half-timbered house, known as the home of the teacher. Withold buildings on both hands, and the old chapel, which we have before us the corner of Stratford, perhaps the least changed in England since the time of Shakespeare, a real coup d'oeil Tudor .

The Stratford Grammar School was - certainly as early as 1424, and re-1553 by Edward the sixth - was an educational center of some importance in the period when Shakespeare was a boy can, we may collect from the fact that teacher salaries head '"twenty pounds a year, a circumstance that would have been that the best men available to be played safely to the office to see the headmaster of ordinary time - as in Eton - had ten pounds. In these circumstances, it is likely that education was probably the best poet of the early theorists of his life were inclined to think. An inscription marks the place where what has been called Shakespeare's desk stand, and it was suggested that, if - asSnapper-up of trifles neglected biographical, John Aubrey records - Shakespeare was a schoolmaster for a time, can the school where he was raised. This is a nice speculation, but nothing more. The desk is now the place of birth.

In addition to the Guild Hall is a similar but slightly lower number of half-timbered houses, red-tiled buildings, almshouses for twelve old Guild and twelve old women - the poor houses that are like one of the oldest and describedmost interesting in England. The facades of the fifteenth century this picturesque houses were long, plaster, but the care with which old Stratford houses many relics that were extended, and the fine lattice is new and very clear. Further south - the street has evolved from Church Street since we left New Place - which we immediately fell as a historical center, where Dr. Hall, the poet, son-in-law, lived, and left, well knownreached the second head of the sanctuaries of the City Shakespeare Shakespeare - the church where he is buried.

Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, is probably one of the best known, the visual representation of how it is certainly one of the most beautiful of our churches. She's tall tower rises through the trees, as viewed from the meadows on the other side of Avon, was in many paintings and photographs, not number. As we approach the cityIt is perhaps less impressive seen in his cathedral of similar proportions, from the Left Bank. The approach road is a short avenue of lime trees - a quiet and pleasant tone. Old elm tree that stood near the terrace, were killed in 1871, and its wood was filmed at the moment, such as "Shakespeare Mulberry Tree "is more than one hundred years before.

If the church of Stratford was not the tomb of Shakespeare, would be worth a visit, asone of the most beautiful, as it is probably part of one of the most venerable churches in Midland. There was a church where "Domesday Book was compiled, but did not receive any trace of the old structure remains. Antiquity sufficient, however, said the Holy Trinity, for the tower erected shortly after the conquest, and built the rest the beautiful cruciform during the fourteenth and fifteenth century to be. While there are many sites of interestin the Church - especially for members of the old Clopton family - is in his memoirs of Shakespeare and his family that is attractive to visitors the great majority, the son of the sixteenth century, bailiff of Stratford, the city center city center, so they are old benefactor and his family of relatively little interest. But Sir Hugh Clopton, who built the bridge over the Avon end, and who owned the "Big House" (later the new place ofShakespeare), can only guess at his or her point of rest, and then just a few bothered to ask the knight resting place of gold. E 'grave of Shakespeare and monument and the graves of his people, where most visitors to the church are concerned. This will be located at the eastern end of the beautiful sanctuary. On the north wall there, near the altar, the famous half-length figure of Shakespeare himself, with pen in hand, as in the act of writing. And 'as specifiedso to speak, in an entablature with the poet in his arms and crest above flanked by a pair of digits as a boy. This monument, designed by Gerard Johnson made some time between the poet's funeral in 1616, and the question of the First Folio edition of his work was in 1623, as we learn from a reference point for you this year. The fact that it was built shortly after his death - and there can be no doubt to be members of his family - you can also us the parable acceptedShakespeare as close to him in the habit as he lived. The figure was stained, and in 1748 John Ward, grandfather of Kemble, was newly painted and repaired the grave with the profits from the company's performance of "Othello" to give Stratford, since they had a posthumous "use" the great poet. Edmund Malone in 1793 received permission to paint the white envelope, it remained until 1861, when the plaster was removed, and the old colors, although they were understandable,restored. Fortunately, an old historic Stratford was the color to describe the original appearance: "His eyes were light brown, hair and beard Auburn. The dress is a red jacket, sleeves blacks had thrown out a suit off without. The pillow top was green, and the bottom of a green, with tassels of gold. "Under the portrait of the poet is the following inscription: -

IVDICIO PYLIVM, Socrates SPIRIT ART

MARONELAND TEGIT, MAERET POPVLVS,

OLYMPVS habet.

Stay passenger why you go so fast?

Read, if you can, that death plast jealous

Within this monument, Shakespeare Whom

Quick Dide Nature, whose name ys bridge Tombs

Much more cost, but serve Witt at his side.

Obiit. ANO. DOI. 1616

The 23 AP Aetatis 53rd.

The choir is driving the royal tomb of the poet, under a stone with the inscription lines traditionally famous sayingwritten by Shakespeare, the removal of his remains have an ossuary, a long time the church was required to prevent, and contained a large collection of fragments of human. The ossuary was taken down in 1800. It also says that the probability of risk of someone to avoid the curse, the tomb was excavated seventeen meters deep. The lines run:

GOOD FOR LOVE frend IESVS bear

Play the DVST to Digg ENCLOASED:

Blessed MAN YT SPARES THESSTONE,

CVRST YT and BE moves my bones.

It was not until 1694 that these lines said, was to have been written by Shakespeare himself. The tradition can be believed arose from the use of the words "my" bones, because it is easy to believe that the great poet to write verses like it. It may well be that he expresses the horror of costume with which the graves were redug, and the bones of their former occupants removed to make room for the Karnerhas new tenants that bring his family and desires a permanent basis, in which I am aware now. Among Shakespeare's tomb and the wall where the monument is the gravestone of his wife in which you want the son-in-law, Dr. Hall, written in Latin lines, the memorial in the following inscription: "Here lyeth Shakespeare had this life on August 6 depted 1623 at the age of 67 years. " Across the grave are the graves of ShakespeareSusannah Hall (1649), her husband Dr. John Hall (1635), and his son-in-law (1647). The inscription on the plaque placed Susannah Hall is worthy of mention, because it "can be fun to think about their gender," she may have inherited some of the qualities of the great father, and also because they believed that perhaps the line was written by her daughter Elizabeth (later Lady Barnard), the last direct descendants of Shakespeare:

YE BODY OF WOMAN armies SVSANNA interposesA: