Echoes of Shakespeare - Webinar - 11.8.23

Hour long webinar from the Footsteps of London collective of official tourist guides, covering key sites in the City of London that reflect aspects of Shakespeare's life and writings. Presented by David Charnick. For me the most interesting revelation was the existence of a monument to Henry Condell and John Heminges, actors who had worked with William in The Globe Theatre. After Shakespeare’s death in 1616 they collated and printed the First Folio, publishing in 1623. This included those eighteen works previously published plus another eighteen unpublished - although not Pericles, Prince of Tyre, The Two Noble Kinsmen, or the two lost plays, Cardenio and Love's Labour's Won. Both men lived in the St. Mary Aldermanbury parish and were buried in it’s churchyard in Love Lane, where this monument was placed. Commissioned by Charles Clement Walker, manager of the Midlands Ironworks in Donington, Shropshire, and a Shakespeare enthusiast, and unveiled on 15 July 1896. Made from pink granite, it is topped with a bust of Shakespeare by C. J. Allen, dated 1895.