Czechoslovakian Quatercentenary Medal
This medal was struck in Czechoslovakia to commemorate the 400th anniversary in 1964 of Shakespeare's birth. Designed by M. Knobloch. Presented by a delegate to the 11th International Shakespeare Conference ...
Draft of William Shakespeare's agreement with Ralph Hubaud, July 1605. Page 1
On 24 July 1605, Shakespeare purchased from Ralph Hubaud a lease of part of the Stratford tithes. Some days before, this draft was prepared for perusal by the Stratford Corporation, the tithe owners. ...
Dutch Quatercentenary Medal
A bronze commemorative medal from the Netherlands for the Quatercentenary, 1964. Designed by V.S.P. Esser.
This Dutch bronze medal re-interprets the Shakespeare icon, probably drawing on the Droeshout ...
Dutch Quatercentenary Medal
A bronze commemorative medal from the Netherlands for the Quatercentenary, 1964. Designed by V.S.P. Esser.
The inscription on the reverse reads "SHAKESPEARE. MCDLXIV (1564). MCMLXIV (1964)".
Identity ...
Elizabeth Hall's Baptism
The entry for 21st February 1607/8 in the parish register of Holy Trinity Chuch, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Elizabeth was the daughter of John Hall and Susanna, nee Shakespeare.
Shakespeare Birthplace ...
Framed Glass Souvenir
Silhouette of William Shakespeare, hand painted on glass.
Identity number SBT 1989-24/14
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - Prefatory sonnet, p. A4r detail.
An Elizabethan courtier promotes a book known to Shakespeare.
In 1599 one of Sir John Harington's poems praised the diplomat lawyer, Lewes Lewkenor's first translation into English of the Italian Garpar ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - 'Ayre of Venice', p.192
A source for Shakespeare’s knowledge of Venice.
Shakespeare’s tragedy of Othello begins in Venice, where the Moor is general of the Doge’s forces, and Desdemona is the daughter of ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - binding
A hard-wearing vellum binding of Shakespeare's time.
This volume is in its original binding of flexible vellum, with a hand-sewn spine. Vellum (a kind of leather from very young, still-born, or foetal ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - Book 5 - p. 125 detail.
The law of Venice inspired Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
The trial in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (4,1, lines 15-36) of Antonio for non-repayment to Shylock of his loan, and ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - p.133.
A Shakespeare contemporary writes about Venice.
The lawyer Lewis Lewkenor travelled in Europe, perhaps as a spy working against the English Catholics. He translated Contarini's book on Venice, first ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - printer's ornament, p. 98, N4v.
A woodcut as decoration.
Woodcuts used to ornament Elizabethan texts were frequently ornate and often symbolic of ideas contained within the text with which they are associated. The cherubs with lute ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - title page.
A handbook on Venice for Shakespeare's contemporaries.
In 1599 Sir Lewis Lewkenor translated from the Italian Gaspar Contarini’s Della Republica et Magistrati de Venetia. This was the first book ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - To the Reader - p. A4r.
A Shakespeare contemporary travels to Venice.
Sussex born lawyer, Sir Lewis Lewkenor (c. 1556-1626) was remotely related to the Combe family of Stratford-upon-Avon, which might, perhaps, have resulted ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, Workes, 1602 - binding in fine leather
A ‘morocco’ binding chosen by a ‘collector’.
The scarlet goatskin and gold tooling of this binding, created by Francis Bedford, was finished in the late nineteenth-century ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, Workes, 1602 - Family tree, p. A6r.
The author's family tree illustrates a Shakespeare sourcebook.
In this finely printed edition the preliminary pages of Chaucer’s Works include a portrait of the author, surrounded by an elaborate ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, Workes, 1602 - The Knight's Tale, Fol. 1, B1r.
The source for Shakespeare and Fletcher's play The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, in which pilgrims each contribute a story to entertain their fellow travelers, begins with the ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, Workes, 1602 - title page, p.a1r
A Shakespeare source in England’s mediaeval poetry.
Geoffrey Chaucer’s works, written in the time of Richard II, at the end of the 13th century, were known and admired by Elizabethan contemporaries ...