The statue, which depicts Prospero and Ariel from William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, was created by Eric Gill, who is said to have sexually abused two of his daughters. According to court ...

David Chick, 58, of Bozeat in Northamptonshire, is accused of damaging the Grade II listed statue in Portland Place in central London in May 2023. The statue, which depicts Prospero and Ariel from ...

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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A statue of William Shakespeare statue in Lincoln Park, Chicago, 1905 There’s no question that some early Americans were stage-struck. Consider, for instance, this bizarre episode of American ...