Where is shakespeare buried

The last but one line of the inscription appears in The Tempest as "And, like this insubstantial pageant faded" and the substituted line which should be "And, like the baseless fabric of this vision" should head the quotation. It is not clear why this variation was used. The inscription on the base of the memorial was added in to make it clear to visitors who might not be able to read the Latin :. There is no other wording on the memorial.

Originally there were railings in front of the monument but these were removed, probably in On the marble ledge between the feet of the statue the letters "T. This is probably graffiti by a Westminster schoolboy, as there are many other monuments in the Abbey that were defaced by initials by boys at this period. The monument was last fully cleaned in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Shakespeare website. Folger Shakespeare Library. South Transept; Poets' Corner. This image can be purchased from Westminster Abbey Library. At different times of the day, or in different seasons, the light falling in the Abbey will light up something that you have walked past a million times and never seen before. Designed by. Developed by. Toggle navigation. While it seems unlikely that they would have been reserved for the poet's family for the thirty-three years between the William's burial in and Susanna's in , there is no eveidence that they have been moved.

There was originally thought that a family vault was under the stones but a recent Ground Penetrating Radar survey has shown that William shakespeare and his family are buried only 3 feet below the surface in shrouds and not coffins. There has also been some speculation that his skull was removed in the late 18th century by grave robbers. While this is an interesting theory, there are other possible explanations for the structure that was found at the head of his grave.

That changed everything … The messages were in crosses, shapes and rebuses. De Vere died in and was buried in Hackney, east London, but his first cousin noted — in a manuscript in the British Library — that he now lay buried in Westminster. I went to the Westminster Abbey archives. Waugh added that the Stratfordians would have loved this discovery.