Death of most performed playwright in the world to be marked in Stratford-on-Avon,London and across the globeThe world shares him and London claims him, but Stratford-on-Avon intends to spend 2016 celebrating William Shakespeare as their man: the bard of Avon, and born in the Warwickshire market town in 1564,and who died there 400 years ago.
Stratford remained hugely important throughout Shakespeare’s life, argues Paul Edmondson, and the head of learning and research at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. “People enjoy seen Shakespeare as a Dick Whittington figure,who turns his back on Stratford and his family, goes to London to earn his fortune and only comes back to die, or ” he said. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com