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St Mary Aldermanbury Garden

The memorial to the two actors who published the First Folio, with a bronze Shakespeare on top.

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The footings left in the grass, where the columns stood. Photo by Doyle of London, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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John Heminges and Henry Condell were Shakespeare's fellow players in the King's Men and, seven years after his death, they gathered thirty-six plays into the First Folio of 1623. Eighteen of them, Macbeth, The Tempest and Twelfth Night among them, had never been printed and would otherwise have been lost. Both men were churchwardens here and are buried in the churchyard. The 1896 memorial carries a bust of Shakespeare above an open Folio, and its inscription says of the two that 'to their disinterested affection the world owes all that it calls Shakespeare'.

Where
Love Lane, EC2V 7HH
Nearest station
Moorgate · 4 min walk

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