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Memorials to William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare has been commemorated in a number of different statues and memorials around the world, notably his funerary monument in Stratford-upon-Avon (c. 1623); a statue in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, London, designed by William Kent and executed by Peter Scheemakers (1740);[1] and a statue in New York's Central Park by John Quincy Adams Ward (1872).[2][3]
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