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William Shakespeare was born into a middle-class family in Elizabethan England, and grew up in a comfortable home on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon. The early 19th-century house plan displayed here shows what Shakespeare’s boyhood home looked like in 1824 – 260 years after his birth – along with neighboring properties and their owners. On the first floor there are a number of rooms in which to prepare food, such as a kitchen, pantry and buttery. These utilitarian rooms were separated from the living quarters, which were on the second floor. The glove shop run by Shakespeare’s father John was in the adjoining property.
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Document identity
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0r96fn89v
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Plan of Shakspeare's birth-place
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obj
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map
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1
Source metadata
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0r96fn89v
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Plan of Shakspeare's birth-place
description
William Shakespeare was born into a middle-class family in Elizabethan England, and grew up in a comfortable home on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon. The early 19th-century house plan displayed here shows what Shakespeare’s boyhood home looked like in 1824 – 260 years after his birth – along with neighboring properties and their owners. On the first floor there are a number of rooms in which to prepare food, such as a kitchen, pantry and buttery. These utilitarian rooms were separated from the living quarters, which were on the second floor. The glove shop run by Shakespeare’s father John was in the adjoining property.
date
["1824"]
year
1824
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_015829
creators
Hemings, W.
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Dramatists, English--Homes and haunts--England--Stratford-upon-Avon
Real property--England--Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon (England)--Maps
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
subjectsGeographic
England
Europe
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire (county)
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Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
England
county
Warwickshire
city
Stratford-upon-Avon
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largeImageUrl
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1
source
import
pubPlace
[England?]
publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Source extras
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sf268508b
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41688024w
schema:latitude
52.183333
schema:longitude
-1.7
extent
1 map : hand color ; 19 x 23 cm
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no
dcId
0r96fn89v
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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610200e9f1d3ddd3