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The Shakespeare funerary monument is a memorial to William Shakespeare located inside Holy Trinity Church at Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, the church in which Shakespeare was baptised and where he was buried in the chancel two days after his death. [1] The monument, carved in pale blue limestone, [2] is
Shakespeare's funerary monument is the earliest memorial to the playwright, located inside Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK, the same church in which he was baptised. The exact date of its construction is not known, but must have been between Shakespeare's death in 1616 and 1623, when it is mentioned in the First Folio ...
Shakespeare's funerary monument, Holy Trinity Church William Shakespeare , poet and playwright, was baptised in Holy Trinity on 26 April 1564 and was buried there on 25 April 1616. [ 17 ] The church still possesses the original Elizabethan register giving details of his baptism and burial, though it is kept by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust ...
An imaginary scene painted in 1857 by Henry Wallis depicting Gerard Johnson carving the monument, while Ben Jonson shows him Shakespeare's death mask. Gerard Johnson Jr. (Dutch: Gheerart Janssen; fl. 1612–1623) was a sculptor working in Jacobean England who is traditionally supposed to have created Shakespeare's funerary monument (although this attribution has more recently been challenged).
The Shakespeare coat of arms, detail of Shakespeare's funerary monument, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford. The Shakespeare coat of arms is an English coat of arms.It was granted to John Shakespeare (c. 1531 – 1601), a glover from Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, in 1596, and was used by his son, the playwright William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), and other descendants.
Shakespeare's funerary monument; Shakespeare's Globe; Statue of William Shakespeare (Chicago) Statue of William Shakespeare (New York City) Statue of William Shakespeare (Roubiliac) Statue of William Shakespeare, Leicester Square
This is a list of types of funerary monument, a physical structure that commemorates a deceased person or a group, in the latter case usually those whose deaths occurred at the same time or in similar circumstances. It differs from a basic tomb or cemetery in that while it may or may not contain the body of the deceased, its primary purpose is ...
Gheerart Janssen (fl. 1568, died 1611), later known as Gerard Johnson Sr., an English sculptor who operated a monument workshop in Elizabethan and Jacobean England and the father of Gerard Johnson the younger, who is thought to have created Shakespeare's funerary monument.