Travel Reference
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• Work your way counterclockwise around the church.
Shakespeare Monument:
William reclines in front of a backdrop of the 16th-
century Bankside skyline (view looking north). Find (left to right) the original Globe
Theatre, Winchester Palace, Southwark Cathedral, and the old London Bridge with its
arched gate. Shakespeare seems to be dreaming about the many characters of his plays, de-
picted in the stained-glass window above (see Hamlet addressing a skull, right window).
To the right is a plaque to the American actor Sam Wanamaker, who spearheaded the
building of a replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (explained later in this chapter).
Shakespeare's brother Edmund is buried in the church, possibly under a marked slab on
the floor of the choir area, near the very center of the church. (The Bard lies buried in his
hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon.)
