"Shakespeare: The Globe & the World," a special 
exhibition from the collection of the Folger Shakespeare 
Library in Washington, D C., will be on view at the 
American Museum of Natural History from June 18 to 
September 20. This article is adapted from the catalog 
to the exhibition, Shakespeare: The Globe & the World, 
by S. Schoenbaum, © 1979 by the Folger Shakespeare 
Library, published by Oxford University Press in 
association with the Folger Shakespeare Library. 
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Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon was painted in 1834 by Phoebe Dighton. 
