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 ...

Very little is known about Shakespeare's physical appearance and ... Various portraits have been painted and statues erected in his memory and it's likely that these were made based on ...

LONDON, Oct. 2. -- Punch publishes a design for a statue, drawn, it says, after certain hints by George Bernard Shaw. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...