This document provides an itinerary for a tour of locations significant to William Shakespeare in England, beginning in Stratford-upon-Avon where he was born and buried, and including stops in London to see theaters where his plays were performed like the Globe. The tour highlights include Shakespeare's birthplace, historic houses, palaces from the Tudor period, Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London, London Bridge, inns and theaters of Bankside, and Holy Trinity Church where Shakespeare is buried with an epitaph warning against disturbing his remains.

1. Shakespeare Tour
of England
by Dr. Christine Haverington

2. William Shakespeare,
Baptized April 26, 1564

3. Shakespeare Birthplace
Stratford-upon-Avon

4. Tudor Period House
Stratford-upon-Avon

5. Mary Arden’s Kitchen,
Stratford-upon-Avon

6. Queen Elizabeth I,
Ruled 1558-1603

7. London

8. Parliament
on the site of Westminster Palace

9. Westminster Cathedral

10. Hampton Court Palace

11. Hampton Court Kitchens

12. Tennis Courts,
Hampton Court

13. The Tower of London

14. Tower Guard

15. Yeoman Warder

16. The Temple

17. London in Shakespeare’s Time
West

18. London in Shakespeare’s Time
East

19. London Bridge

20. A Renaissance Inn

21. Innyard

22. St. Mary Overie
(Southwark Cathedral, Bankside)

23. Bankside

24. Bishop of Winchester’s Palace

25. In the Clink

26. Reconstructing the Globe
1993

27. Globe Theatre Construction

28. The New Globe

29. Globe Theatre Stage

30. All the World’s a Stage

31. Richard Burbage

32. Edward Alleyn

33. Globe Theatre Company
Performance
1999

34. King James I of England,
Ruled 1603-1625

35. Holy Trinity Church
Stratford-upon-Avon

36. Shakespeare Buried in Holy Trinity,
Died April 23, 1616

37. Holy Trinity Altar,
Shakespeare’s Tomb & Memorial to
Left

38. Shakespeare Memorial

39. Epitaph
GOOD FREND FOR IESVS SAKE
FORBEARE,
TO DIGG THE DVST ENCLOASED
HEARE:
BLESTE BE THE MAN THAT SPARES
THES STONES,
AND CVRST BE HE THAT MOVES
MY BONES.

40. Sources
David Bevington. The Necessary Shakespeare, Second Ed. (NY:
Pearson Longman, 2005).
Edward Alleyn (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).
Hampton Court Palace Tennis Courts (Crown Copyright, 1993).
The Kitchen, Mary Arden’s House (Jarrold Publishing).
Plantagenet Somerset Fry. The Tower of London: Cauldron of
Britain’s Past (London: Quiller Press, 1990).
Richard Burbage (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).
The Riverside Shakespeare, Second Ed. (Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1997).
Southwark: A History of Bankside (London: Robert J. Godley,
1996).
All other images, my photographs, taken 1993 &1999.