Posted on March 1, 2010 in:
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When visiting Stratford-upon-Avon, one place you shouldn’t miss is the magnificent Anne Hathaway’s Cottage in Shottery. It is a hamlet within the parish of Stratford but just over a mile from the town centre. Known to be the most romantic of all Shakesperean properties, the cottage is where Anne Hathaway spent her childhood and youth. This main Stratford attraction can still be reached by the footpaths over the fields – just as it was in Shakespeare’s time when he came to court his future wife. It was in the year 1582 when William Shakespeare and Anne were married.
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Posted on February 28, 2010 in:
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It shouldn’t be a surprise that The Royal Shakespeare Company has its main theatre located in the birthplace of William Shakespeare. This is right exactly in the picturesque English town of Stratford – where the current theatre itself overlooks the River Avon.
Shakespeare, after all, was the main element in the creation of the company. One of the greatest playwrights of all time, Shakespeare had left his masterpieces as a legacy to the theatre industry.
It was the love for Shakespeare’s work which initiated the creation of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).
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The Great Shakespearean Legacy
So strongly did William Shakespeare stood the test of time that even now, more than four hundred years after his birth, he was able to hold the highest regard as the world’s greatest poet and playwright. Over the span of his 52 years, from a relatively obscure background, he had achieved fame, wealth and an unfaltering status without ever losing touch with his roots in his native Warwickshire. Here in Stratford-upon-Avon is where Shakespeare began and ended his life. Although there is a scant documentation of his life (he left no diaries or letters to illuminate his life), scholars over the centuries have patched together enough for us to gain a good insight into the course of his life, during which he wrote thirty-seven plays, the poems The Rape of Lucrece, Venus and Adonis, The Phoenix and The Turtle and The Sonnets. Click here to read more »
