Lear Merch
Description: Shakespeare - "Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorred in my imagination it is". This is the iconic monologue spoken by Hamlet in Act V, Scene I of William Shakespeare’s play, where he holds the skull of Yorick, the late King’s jester. Hamlet reminisces about Yorick’s vibrant personality and physical affection, before confronting the grotesque reality of decay, which serves as a meditation on mortality and the inevitability of death for all people, regardless of status.
Description: Shakespeare - Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, it is believed to have been written in the mid 1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. The plot is about a king and three lords who vow to avoid women for three years of study, only to immediately fall in love, when a French princess and her ladies arrive.
Description: William Shakespeare - The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark, close to the south bank of the Thames, by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men. It was destroyed by fire on the 29th of June 1613. A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and stayed open until the London theatre closures of 1642. As well as plays by Shakespeare, early works by Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and John Fletcher were first performed here.
