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 ...

Academics and Shakespeare enthusiasts have pondered for centuries over the various portraits and statues erected in his ... the Royal Shakespeare Company's art collection. Believed to be painted ...