Shakespeare's house razed and destroyed

Shakespeare's England

From a story by Mark Twain

"The nice thing is that Britain is alone, not double, it is very simple, the details, only grass and trees and shrubs, and roads, hedges and gardens and houses and churches and castles. And here and there a ruin , and all dream of a land soft story. But the beauty is incomparable, and his own. "

From: Shakespeare's Country:

It is fortunate that the little city that candescribed as the heart of Warwickshire, England are so rich, but comfortable as the landscape of the green. You may not be easy to determine who first applied the label "green" community, but it is so descriptive of the happy people rarely think about the name of the County of Warwick, without the addition, and so it is difficult, from Stratford -upon-Avon, without thinking about how to think of Shakespeare's Stratford. The citizens of the place may be able to think of it as a sort ofthe city of unity, 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 background full of beauty and low interest rates, some 'stylized, perhaps, by a show place. Few can these people "with soul so dead," to use Sir Walter Scott, admired by a lot of familiar expression with large round spots impassive connected.

MostVisitors from far away to reach Stratford-upon-Avon train, and the voices of those stations are probably the worst damage first impression of the city. This is especially the case with that of the great central western Alcester road, so that we are in a wide road, flat with the large general hospital to our left, and new buildings of red brick, and then-fronted, low, ugly buildings and shops of increasing distance from the foot. We must goalong a road width of strangely different, and you might go right over the city from west to east - a street with five names, Alcester Road, Greenhill Road, Wood Street, Bridge Street, Bridge and foot - and coming on Clopton Bridge Avon no idea that we were more comfortable in a quiet town passed a type not uncommon in the English Midlands.

A look at the window, which counted with their cards, and variousSouvenirs would show that the city differently than it seemed, was. A little piece on our left, there should be the central sanctuary of the Centre rose from many shrines - the birthplace of William Shakespeare - looking right along the High Street, which branches off to the point where the narrowest part of the road Wood Street, Bridge Street would be broad insights into some of the oldest buildings in the city. If our travelers expected to haveIgnorance about the importance of Stratford came Clopton bridge, looking downstream, is a striking building would be visible in the water - a building of red brick and white stone building with a pitched slate roof green gables and turrets, and many small . This building in a city would certainly arouse the curiosity of travelers, and would ask that to find the Shakespeare Memorial. Also, farther down the river, which would see the tower of the church rose from Stratford toTrees - the church, is buried in Shakespeare - and would definitely stay in one application, and for the city, which had at first seemed little that was particularly attractive.

Clopton bridge itself can be good for us to hold on. It 's a beautiful stone structure of many strings with low sills, we have wonderful scenes up and down the curve of the soft-flowing Avon, turns to us, but having short of water, while the meadows flat backedthe green trees in Warwickshire is omnipresent. Looking downstream, toward the memorial and the Church we see the old bridge is closely associated with another red brick, built for the construction of a disused railway nearby and said to one of the oldest of our railroad bridges, a fact potentially reduce our impatience to its obstruction of views along the river and also to hinder our view of the beautiful old bridge, when we see the flow from the playground on the left bank of the Avon.

Here iswe can say that an old priest named Avon Stratford-time comes from an English word, means aufona with them as much as Fluvius with us "are. The river has been told by an old wooden bridge over the tradition that is not supported Queen Mathilde has brought their field troops, but this was removed by one of the most notable citizens of Stratford and replaced by the current stone bridge on iron plates, the inclusion of its building and its repair and expansion in the first half of the century last year.As long as the extension to it stood a stone pillar with the following story enough: "Sir Hugh Cloppenburg, Knight, Lord Mayor of London, the bridge at its own expense adequate during the reign of King Henry the seventh.

To return to the Avon. Returning to the east of foot-Bridge Street Bridge, visiting the shrine dedicated to the memory of one who does not just refer to Stratford, but Britain's most famous son, let the General Bridge Street, and find a way to Forksboth sides of the plain white, a lot of Bank Building windows. The left path is Wood Street, through which we came out of the station. The law is Henley Street, via a short, two thirds of the way along which we get a clean growth and very picturesque half-timbered gables and, like most of the houses in these older types of Stratford, just off the road. This is the "cradle". On both sides of the garden is now kept open the floor to the shrine can not be any liabilityRisk of fire from which the city has suffered three times higher during the period of Shakespeare. The last of these occasions - in July. 1614 - no less than fifty-four homes were destroyed, so there is no doubt similar to those fires, we will no longer be guaranteed that the Tudor building. Fortunately, among those spared are the most interesting.

To access the ticket needed for the house must be won to the hut to the east,Office of the Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare's birthplace. Although brick per day, and other changes, this refuge in time of the poet was standing, his neighbors is there, as Horneby.

The same place of birth is one of the most important shrines of the city, a place visited by thousands of people from all over the world. This small room is small, it is irregular scales, one can easily imagine how nice the people lived in the spacious days of greatElizabeth, the beautiful collection of documents and books, documents, memorabilia and curiosity, we obtain information more directly personal Shakespeare himself, his family and people he knew. Upstairs there are in the room where the April 23, 1564, the poet was born. Here generations of visitors scribbling their name, according to a bad habit to which Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens is dead. Now is the signature record of those whoVisit the house kept properly in a guest book destination.

It is not possible for anyone with imagination, to remain indifferent in these spaces - spaces in which the poet was born, in which he came, what we do and believe, was a happy childhood, which was about a high school quarter of a mile away, and from which he went to the farm a mile above the fields of Shottery. From the knowledge of the personality of Shakespeare, you can have very little historymost of his life may be suspect, but here, at least we feel that we see a lot of space, according to him, though, instead of the simple device of the Tudor period, we have some rooms in the jumble of a museum. This is a museum full of interest for the student of Shakespearean and takes visitors to linger on the sight of copies of the books read by the poet himself, his old and may have other signatures on legal documents on the famous portrait "Ely"Shakespeare, images, maps and other relics of the past in Stratford-upon-Avon.

So little we know about the details of Shakespeare's life story is the story of his hometown, from owner to owner, fortunately, everything from the moment of his birth for the purchase of the house by the nation in 1847. It 's true that there is no lack of theorists trying to prove that his place of birth is not really here, but circumstantial evidence strongly supports the'Convinced that he did. Here the father, John Shakespeare lived, and here he continued his work of wood stapler and Glover. In the immediate vicinity have changed with the improvement of conditions in the sixteenth century, Shakespeare was the first to perform a dung-heap outside his front door late! Henley Street, the road is now a clean and pleasant, but the modernity of a motor garage is a bit 'marked on the west, and was on the road in a Saturday night I noticed, if notan old man, of course, a fishy smell of a fried fish shop almost opposite the house where, during the end of Henley Street, the fatigues came to a Salvation Army hymn. In men Stratford you can not live feeling.

Skip to the back door of the house, we are in a garden, the guardians of which make it a particularly interesting plants in it representatives of all the flowers and trees, the name of the poet in his works. visit here in September, I found"The primrose pale," are in full bloom, and here to see the beginning of summer, a beautiful exhibition of these "old-fashioned flowers and herbs that thrive in the immortal words of Ophelia and Loss:

"There's rosemary, that's the memory: I pray thee, love, remember: and there is pansies, that is for the thoughts .... There are fennel for you, and columbines: there is a rue for you and here are a few for me: we may call it herb of grace or Sunday ': O you must wear your rue with aDifference. There's a daisy: you give me some violets, but they withered all when my father died.

For you there's rosemary and rue to keep this

Apparent and enjoy all winter ....

Here are the flowers for you;

Hot lavender, mint, savory, marjoram;

The marigold, that goes to bed wi 'the sun,

And with him rises weeping ... Daffodils

What comes first swallow dares, and take

The winds of March with beauty, deep purple,

But sweeterthe eyelids Juno

Or Cytherea breath, pale primroses,

The die before you can watch unmarried

Bright Phoebus in his strength, a disease

Most of the waitresses accident, fat and oxlips

The crown imperial, lilies of all kinds,

The flower be a de-Luce.

All these flowers of the poet - flowers, which is now placed as epithets family - can be found in small well-kept garden at the back of the birthplace. Run endstrack in Henley Street, and again we have our way for the construction of the bank and from there the path that students have passed Shakespeare, may at times -

with his bag

And shining morning face, creeping like snail

Unwilling to school -

go short High Street, on the other side where you see the simple projected ugliness of the town hall, and beyond the big old Guild Chapel.

Before that far, but there are placesArrest attention. Just before the town hall on the right - to those seen smiling with a sense of 'humor in Shakespeare passed the restaurant, kept by a Bacon! - A projection of half-timbered house is worth more than a momentary glance. It 's a beautiful specimen of a Tudor house with its richly carved beams, arching the upper floors. This is known as the House of Harvard, because it was the home of Katherine Rogers, mother of John Harvard, founder of the famousHarvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It 'an interesting fact that, as Shakespeare had gone, according to tradition, from Stratford in Southwark, said Katherine Rogers, his neighbor in Warwickshire, Southwark, a married man. He suggests that there is a special reason for drawing the Stratfordians, who went to London in a city south of London Bridge was. The attractive old house, one of the architectural jewels of Stratford, recently, mostis part of an appointment for the American visitors who have transformed an impressive percentage of those who make the pilgrimage to the form of Stratford. Picturesque exterior, the interior with its furniture, old world, is well worthy of inspection.

Almost all of the Rogers Harvard House is the mediocre, if not entirely worthless, City Hall, built one hundred and fifty years, and to illustrate the beginning of one of the least enjoyable time in British architecture. OnNorth End, High Street to the statue of David Garrick is at the end of the famous "Shakespeare Jubilee" by 1769th Inside the room are some interesting images, including Gainsborough's portrait of Garrick.

Right next to the Town Hall is the Shakespeare Hotel, part of which is the Five Gables ", a house made of wooden beams, the lower part, which consists of shops. The rooms of this hotel has long been known as an extraordinary, often with particularHappiness, on the basis of Shakespeare's plays. So Bar - Lounge is "Measure for Measure" coffee room "As You Like It," and so on.

This waste in the name of streets, the visitor can not fail, we find that High Street in the town hall ended, and we are on a chapel, with its beautiful stone tower of the old Guild Chapel, one steps into the future. A bit 'on the "Five Gables", and also left corner of Chapel Street and Chapel Lane, reachCity of New Place, the house that Shakespeare bought in its prosperity, and where he died April 23 1616th The House passed immediately before the IT, New Place Museum, as Nash's House is because it is the home of her first husband's niece's Shakespeare Elizabeth Hall notes - Thomas Nash, who is not confused with the Elizabethan writers of the same name.

The location of the house and garden from the street by a low wall, topped by a fenceornate iron railings, are included in the decoration of the initials "WAS" and the poet and emblem of the city. The parapets are something to be taken uglified gold. A little 'down Chapel Lane, at the foot of the memorial is the entrance to the garden nice and well kept attached to the new place. Here's the trunk of a mulberry tree as a long-stemmed tree will be described with Shakespeare. Hare is seeing a column of the old town hall, a sculpturefront of 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 attracted attracted so much attention from visitors that interest in Shakespeare in the eighteenth century that the United Nations Gastrell reverend, who then owned by New Place, condemn themselves to eternal fame "to down him and his despicable vandalism carried out beyond a few years later, inResult of a dispute with the company's pricing, which had demolished the New City, after his retirement, appropriately, not to mention the city of Stratford. The mulberry tree was a local merchant, who made many of them acquired momentoes for lovers of Shakespeare - it could be accused of, yes, he is doing much more than souvenirs have come in real wood. Drinking at major festivals from a cup made of the famous tree, Garrick sang his own words:

Look at this fairCup was' cut from the tree t

What, my sweet Shakespeare, was planted by thee;

As a relic I kiss and bow to the shrine,

What comes from your hand is always divine.

All yield to the mulberry

Bend to you,

Selig mulberry;

Matchless was

Who has planted;

And you know he is immortal!

Gastrell a writer outraged many years ago, said: "The crazy old man who has destroyed Shakespeare's mulberry tree,and pulled in a fit of impotent rage bilious last abode of the poet on the ground, Stratford quited the midst of the general disgust of its inhabitants. This savage evil that could be the work of eccentricity on the brink of madness. We have compassion for the poor in a situation where an act so callous and senseless as it was, we know that the constant visible presence of the divinity, the sacred bastions of Zion, and fortified with walls salvation, ten thousand memories vividexplanation of the abandoned apartments of the relics really big, popular and sacred ground of their homes, their hearts and imaginations of generations. "

New Place, which was originally built by Sir Hugh Cloppenburg at the time of Henry VII, was acquired, edited, and because of their lasting fame by William Shakespeare in 1597. Before the property of Mr. Gastrell, the infamous memory, had belonged to the family returned Cloppenburg, under the mulberry tree and other famousSir Hugh maintain Garrick, Macklin, and other notables in 1742.

If Shakespeare's daughter Susanna Hall, was still alive at the new place - she died there in 1649 - then came the riots of the Civil War, and here the Queen Henrietta Maria with Charles was on his way to join the first at Oxford in 1643, and made his move to new place, probably as the principal residence of the city. Prince Rupert, was also here, and for once quiet town was a center of military activity, withabout 5,000 soldiers to their quarters. A year earlier, the city needs to fly into an excitation fine had to be removed with the battle of Edge Hill in less than a dozen miles. One historian said: "At this time the Queen took her home for about three weeks in New Place, Stratford, Shakespeare's wife, while living there." The writer was apparently confused the wife of the poet and her daughter, Mrs. Shakespeare had died twenty years ago. Stratford was not in the intactdifficult times, was destroyed by one of the arches of the bridge Clopton, and the old town hall was blown up - a column by him, as has been said, can be seen in the new garden space.

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 immediately behind it is a long series of beautiful half-timbered houses from the Guild Hall, high school, and 24 homes for the elderly. Something inside of level, is oldMurals extinct, it is as fine example of architecture of the fifteenth century, the old chapel demands attention. heard from his Tower in the morning and evening during the winter is still the sound of the bell of the curfew. Here it is thought that Shakespeare attended public worship, because they are not used to a bench in the chapel attached to the new place.

This connection with the chapel of the house might result from the time when Sir Hugh Clopton, dated resided there when he was a greatBenefactor of the construction, reconstruction of the nave and the tower. On the south side of the chapel is the entrance to the old half-timbered house Guild Hall and Gymnasium - the latter on the former. This building is built over the end of the thirteenth century by Robert de Stratford, probably for the Brothers of Holy Cross. Shakespeare's associations are all around us. In the classroom with a large open roof trusses would have to receive hisEducation at the Guildhall, it was suggested that it may have been present when the company of stage players are known, by virtue of their achievements during the time that his father was mayor of the city. Nice on the back of the seat Guild Hall, we'll see another half-timbered house, known as the home of the teacher. These old buildings on both hands, and the old chapel in front of us we have the corner of Stratford, which has perhaps changed the least, sinceShakespeare's time, a real coup d'oeil of Tudor England.

The Stratford Grammar School - formed back in 1424, and re-founded by Edward the sixth 1553 - was a training center of some importance in the period when Shakespeare was a boy, evidenced by the fact that allowed the "salary" head £ 20 a year, a fact made it probable that the best men available to be won were for the office to see that the main commontime - as at Eton - he was only ten pounds. In those circumstances, it is likely that the education of the poet was probably better than the early theoretical work of his life were inclined to think. An inscription marks the place of what was really wrote Shakespeare, and it was suggested that, if - as things always inconsiderate little snapper-up, John Aubrey, record - Shakespeare was once a school teacher may have here at school, had been inwas raised. It 's a good hypothesis, but nothing more. The desk is now in the place of birth.

In addition to the Guild Hall is a similar but slightly lower number of half-timbered houses with red brick buildings, almshouses Guild for twelve men and twelve women, old old - nursing homes, which are described as one of the oldest and most interesting England. The facades of the houses in this picturesque fifteenth century were plastered long gone, but the care of the guards with it many StratfordRelics extended, and the good technical work has really done a new and clear. To the south - on the road from Church Street, when we left New Place to be - we will soon get the so-called historic center, where Dr. Hall, the poet's son-in-law, who lived and how to reach the second head of the sanctuaries City Shakespeare Shakespeare - the church where he is buried.

Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, is probably one ofthe best known, illustration, since it is one of the most beautiful of our churches. E 'high tower, climbing the trees, as seen from the meadows on the opposite bank of the River Avon, has represented in many paintings and countless photographs. In our approach from the city, is perhaps less impressive than we have seen, in his cathedral-like proportions, from the left bank of the River. The approach of the road a short walk from Lime - calm "andpleasing shadows "were. elms near the Old Town Hall in 1871, have been killed and their wood was shot in momentoes, like those of Shakespeare's mulberry tree," more than one hundred years before.

Stratford church if it was not the tomb of Shakespeare, it would be worth a visit as one of the most beautiful, because it is probably part of one of the most venerable churches of Midland. There was a church where "Domesday Book" was compiled, but no trace of these earlyStructure remains. sufficient antiquity is claimed for the Holy Trinity, to be built was built shortly after the conquest and the rest of beautiful cross-shaped during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries for the Tower. Although there are many monuments of interest to the Church - in particular the members of the old Clopton family - is in its monuments of Shakespeare and his family who is attractive to visitors for the great majority, for the childsixteenth century the bailiff of Stratford, the city is on, so they are old benefactor and his family is relatively little interest. But Sir Hugh Cloppenburg, who built the great bridge over the River Avon, and who owned the "Big House" (later Shakespeare the new space) assume, only to its point of rest, and is only a few problems for information resting place when the good knight. E 'Shakespeare's grave and monument and the graves ofhis people, where most visitors to the church are concerned. This will be found at the eastern end of the beautiful sanctuary. On the north wall near the altar is the famous half-length figure of Shakespeare, with pen in hand, as in the act of writing. It is, so to speak, in an entablature with the poet in his arms and crest figures to above flanked by a pair of boy. This monument, designed by Gerard Johnson, was built in the time between the poet's funeral in1616 and the theme of the First Folio edition of his work in 1623, when we become aware of a reference to this year. The fact that it was erected soon after his death - and there is little doubt to be members of his family - can also give us the parable of Shakespeare closer to him in the habit, as he accepted lived. The figure was stained, and in 1748 John Ward, grandfather of the tomb of Kemble had deleted the new and repaired with the profits of his companyPerformance of "Othello" in Stratford to give, as they were, a posthumous "benefit" of the great poet. In 1793, Edmund Malone has been given permission to the white chest and white, remained until 1861, when the plaster was removed, and the old colors, as they were responsible, restored. Fortunately, an ancient town of Stratford had described his initial appearance, "The eyes consisted of a color and light brown hair and beard Auburn's dress a red jacket.a loose black robe was thrown without sleeves. The top of the pad is green, the bottom of a green color, with gold tassels "Under the portrait of the poet is the following inscription:. -

IVDICIO PYLIVM, Socrates GENIUS OF ART

Chestnuts, TEGIT LAND MAERET POPVLVS,

OLYMPVS Habet.

Stay passenger, because it goes so fast?

Read, if you can, which plast death envious

Within this monument, with ShakespeareWhom

Quick Dide nature, whose name ys covered Tombs

Much of the cost, but to serve his side Witt.

OBIIT. ANO. DOI. 1616

The 23 AP Aetatis 53rd.

The choir is driving the royal tomb of the poet, are under a stone with the lines of the famous inscription traditionally allegedly written by Shakespeare for the removal of her remains, the ossuary, the church has long been linked to preventing and containing a large collection of human fragments. ThisKarner was only taken in 1800. It is also said to prevent the likelihood of injury upon the curse, the grave was dug seventeen feet deep. The lines run:

Well for the love frend IESVS bear

THE DVST to Digg ENCLOASED Hear:

Blessed YE MAN YT SPARES THES STONES BE,

It moves my bones CVRST OF YT.

It was not until 1694 that these lines said, was to have been written by Shakespeare himself. The tradition can believe comes fromUsing the words "my bones", it is not easy to believe that the great poet to write just like that nursery rhyme. It may well be that horror of the practice redug Expressed in which the graves and bones removed their inmates to the old ossuary, to make room for new tenants, and that his family was his willingness to put in permanent form which we now know. Among Shakespeare's grave and the north wall, on which the monument is the gravestoneHis wife, whose son-in-law, Dr. Hall is writing the lines of Latin, the monument will have to follow written: "Here Lyeth Shakespeare, that this life on August 6, 1623, during his 67 years depted years. "Across the grave are the graves of Susanna Shakespeare Hall (1649), by her husband Dr. John Hall (1635) and his son-in-law (1647). The inscription on the plaque Susanna Hall is worthy of mention, because it suggests that "funnytheir gender, "has inherited the qualities to have some of their great father, and also because it was thought that perhaps the lines Lady Barnard) may have been written by his daughter Elizabeth (later the last direct descendants of Shakespeare:

Army YE BODY OF MRS Lyeth SVSANNA A: