page_title: Memorials to William Shakespeare
section_title: United States
hierarchical_section_title: Memorials to William Shakespeare / 19th century / United States
caption_attribution_description: Statue of William Shakespeare on "Literary Walk" in Central Park, Manhattan, NYC
context_page_description: William Shakespeare has been commemorated in a number of different statues and memorials around the world, notably his funerary monument in Stratford-upon-Avon; a statue in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, London, designed by William Kent and executed by Peter Scheemakers; and a statue in New York's Central Park by John Quincy Adams Ward.
context_section_description: New York City's Central Park contains a statue of Shakespeare that was commissioned in 1864 as a celebration of the tricentenary of Shakespeare's birth in 1564. Funds were raised by a performance of Julius Caesar in which Edwin Booth took the lead role, with John Wilkes Booth playing Mark Antony. The statue was designed by John Quincy Adams Ward. Following the creation of the statue, in 1873 commissioners proposed that the Mall should be a designated location for sculpture and the statue was moved there, soon to be accompanied by others (in 1986, a replica of the statue was made for the State Theater in Montgomery, Alabama, which has a yearly Shakespeare Festival).
  In 1888, a large seated statue by William Ordway Partridge was unveiled in Lincoln Park, Chicago and in 1896 a bronze statue of Shakespeare by Frederick William MacMonnies was erected as part of a series representing the world's geniuses in the gallery of the reading-room of the Library of Congress.
caption: Statue in Central Park, New York, by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1872.
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