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[[Image:Thomas Banks Shakespeare attended by Painting and Poetry c 1789.jpg|thumb|250px|Engraving of the sculpture of Shakespeare at the entrance to the [[Boydell Shakespeare Gallery]]. The sculpture is now in the former garden of Shakespeare's home [[New Place]] in Stratford.]]
[[William Shakespeare]] ==17th century==
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As Shakespeare's reputation rose, monuments began to be created in nationally significant locations. [[William Kent]] designed a statue for Poets' Corner in [[Westminster Abbey]]. The design was executed by the sculptor [[Peter Scheemakers]] and installed in 1740. Its creation was funded by [[Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington|Lord Burlington]] and [[Alexander Pope]], among others. At least two fundraising events were led by the efforts of the [[Shakespeare Ladies Club]]: a benefit performance of ''Julius Caesar'' on April 28, 1738 at Drury Lane and a benefit performance of ''Hamlet'' on April 10, 1739 at Covent Garden.<ref>Avery, Emmett L. (1956). "The Shakespeare Ladies Club". Shakespeare Quarterly 7 (2): p. 157</ref><ref>Dobson, Michael (1992), The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660-1769, Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, pp. 137–38, 159–60 {{ISBN|0198183232}}.</ref> There are carved heads on the pedestal, which probably depict Queen [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]], [[Henry V of England|Henry V]] and [[Richard III of England|Richard III]]. Shakespeare is depicted leaning on books and pointing to a scroll which has a slightly misquoted version of [[Prospero]]'s lines from ''[[The Tempest]]'' about the globe dissolving to "leave not a wrack behind". A variant of Kent's design was installed in a Glasgow theatre in 1764. It is now in the [[Theatre Royal, Glasgow|Theatre Royal]] in Dunlop Street.<ref>Raymond McKenzie, Gary Nisbet, ''Public Sculpture of Glasgow'', Liverpool University Press, 2001, p. 434</ref>
[[Image:Poets corner.jpg|thumb|left|Poets' Corner in Westminster abbey, showing Scheemaker's statue of Shakespeare]]
In 1757 the English actor [[David Garrick]] commissioned a marble statue of William Shakespeare from the French sculptor [[Louis-François Roubiliac]] for his [[Palladian architecture|Palladian]] [[Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare|Temple to Shakespeare]] at [[Hampton, London|Hampton]]. Garrick himself is thought to have posed for the statue.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/m/marble_full-length_figure_of_w.aspx|title=Marble full-length figure of William Shakespeare by Louis-François Roubiliac|publisher=British Museum|
In 1788, in the exterior wall of [[John Boydell]]'s [[Boydell Shakespeare Gallery|Shakespeare Gallery]] building, the architect [[George Dance the Younger]] placed [[Thomas Banks (sculptor)|Thomas Banks]]'s sculpture ''Shakespeare attended by Painting and Poetry'', for which the artist was paid 500 [[Guinea (British coin)|guineas]]. The sculpture depicted Shakespeare, reclining against a rock, between the Dramatic Muse and the Genius of Painting. Beneath it was a panelled pedestal inscribed with a quotation from ''Hamlet'': "He was a Man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again".<ref name=SurveyofLondon_2930>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40580 Sheppard, 325–38].</ref><ref>[[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Hamlet]]''. [[s:Hamlet#Scene 2. A room of state in the castle.|Act I, scene ii]]. ''[[Wikisource]]''. Retrieved on 15 January 2008.</ref> The building was later used by the [[British Institution]]. After its demolition the monument was relocated to the garden of [[New Place]] in Stratford.
==19th century==
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===United States===
[[File:William Shakespeare Statue, Central Park, NYC.JPG|thumb|left|upright|Statue in Central Park, New York, by [[John Quincy Adams Ward]], 1872.]]
New York City's [[Central Park]] contains a statue of Shakespeare that was commissioned in 1864 as a celebration of the tricentenary of Shakespeare's birth in 1564. Funds were raised by a performance of ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'' in which [[Edwin Booth]] took the lead role, with [[John Wilkes Booth]] playing Mark Antony.<ref>[http://publications.villanova.edu/vumagazine/winter2001/Falvey.htm Villanova Magazine Archive – Winter 2001.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060829010606/http://publications.villanova.edu/vumagazine/winter2001/Falvey.htm |date=29 August 2006 }} It is sometimes mistakenly said that John Wilkes Booth played Cassius, cf. Frederick Wagner, ''American Actors and Actresses'', Dodd Mead Company, New York, 1961.</ref> The statue was designed by [[John Quincy Adams Ward]]. Following the creation of the statue, in 1873 commissioners proposed that the Mall should be a designated location for sculpture and the statue was moved there, soon to be accompanied by others<ref name = "strat">{{cite web|url=http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-statues-and-memorials.htm |title=Shakespeare Memorials |publisher=William-shakespeare.info |access-date
In 1888, a large seated statue by [[William Ordway Partridge]] was unveiled in [[Lincoln Park, Chicago]] and in 1896 a bronze statue of Shakespeare by [[Frederick William MacMonnies]] was erected as part of a series representing the world's geniuses in the gallery of the reading-room of the [[Library of Congress]].
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[[Image:Shakestrat.jpg|thumb|The monument in Stratford-upon-Avon, designed by [[Lord Ronald Gower]].]]
With the removal of Banks's sculpture to New Place in 1871 London boasted no outdoor public memorial to the bard, and the erection of the New York statue in 1872 made this omission particularly glaring. In 1874 the financier Baron [[Albert Grant (company promoter)|Albert Grant]], wishing to address this situation, installed a fountain with a marble statue of Shakespeare at its centre in the gardens of [[Leicester Square]]. Sculpted by Giovanni Fontana, this was a replica of Scheemakers's monument in Poets' Corner.<ref>{{cite book
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}}, pp. 114–15</ref> Another statue was erected in [[Stratford, London]], a suburb with the same name as Shakespeare's home town.
In 1877 a committee was created in [[Stratford-upon-Avon]] to erect a memorial to Shakespeare. This originally comprised a theatre building, to be sited on land donated by the bank of the Avon within sight of the church where Shakespeare was buried. A statue was also created in 1888, the work of [[Lord Ronald Gower]]. This is situated in Stratford's Bancroft Gardens. The monument shows Shakespeare seated on a pedestal, surrounded, at ground level, by statues of [[Prince Hamlet|Hamlet]], [[Lady Macbeth]], [[Prince Hal]], and [[Falstaff]]. These characters were intended to be emblematic of Shakespeare's creative versatility: representing Philosophy, Tragedy, History, and Comedy.<ref name = "strat"/> Another statue is present in a niche on the exterior of the town hall building.
===Other countries===
Though most memorials are to be found in English speaking countries, there are also monuments elsewhere. In 1888 a statue was erected on the [[Boulevard Haussmann]] in Paris, designed by Paul Fournier.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scholarsresource.com/browse/work/2144600577 |title=Statue of Shakespeare (1564–1616) on Boulevard Haussmann, unveiled in 1888 |publisher=Scholarsresource.com |access-date
==20th century==
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[[File:Shakespeare20Lbanknote.jpg|thumb|left|£20 Bank of England note.]]
Between 1970 and 1993, an image of the Poets' Corner statue of Shakespeare appeared on the reverse of Series D [[Bank of England note issues|£20 notes]] issued by the [[Bank of England]]. Alongside the statue was an engraving of the balcony scene from ''Romeo and Juliet''.<ref name="banknote1">{{cite web|url=http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/content/view/16/16 |title=What Did Shakespeare Look Like? |publisher=The [[Shakespeare Birthplace Trust]] |
A complex memorial to Shakespeare was created in [[Southwark Cathedral]], which was his parish church when he lived in London close to the [[Globe Theatre]]. It is also the burial place of Shakespeare's brother Edmund, along with other Elizabethan actors and playwrights. A recumbent statue of Shakespeare, created by Henry McCarthy in 1912, was placed in a niche on which was carved images of Elizabethan Southwark depicting the Globe, [[Winchester Palace]] and the tower of the church. An elaborate stained glass window was also created, depicting Shakespearean characters. The original window was destroyed by a bomb blast in [[World War II]] but was replaced in 1954. A birthday celebration of Shakespeare is held every year in April.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.southwark.anglican.org/cathedral/tour/bill.htm |title=Southwark Cathedral – Shakespeare Memorial |publisher=Southwark.anglican.org |access-date
===Continental Europe===
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===North America===
A statue was created for [[Logan Circle
A statue made from tin was erected in the gardens outside the Festival Theatre, the principal theatre on the grounds of the [[Stratford Shakespeare Festival]], held every year from April to November in [[Stratford, Ontario]], Canada.
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