The house-Museum of William Shakespeare is located in Stratford-upon-Avon, where the great English playwright and poet was born and died.

The house, built in the XVI century, located on the street Henley street in the centre of the city. In the opinion of our contemporary, the house seems simple and quite small, but in those days such housing could afford only very wealthy people. It is known that the father of Shakespeare, John Shakespeare was a glove maker and traded fur.

House architecture typical of the time. The first floor has a living room with fireplace, a large hall with an open hearth and down the hall – workshop of the master of the house. On the second floor – three bedrooms. Small cottage and premises, which now houses the kitchen, were added to the house later.

Shakespeare himself got this house by succession after the death of the father, but by that time he already had his house, new place, where he lived with his family. Therefore, the house in Henley street was rented, and there was opened a small hotel.

Interest in the work of Shakespeare, and, consequently, to his life, increasing again in the mid-eighteenth century. Begins a pilgrimage to the house where the playwright was born. Among the autographs left on the walls and window sills, we find the names of Isaac Watts, Charles Dickens, Walter Scott and Thomas Carlyle. In the book of honorable guests left their autographs Byron, Tennyson, Keats and Thackeray.

In 1847 a specially created Fund with the support of celebrities such as Dickens, he bought the house and spent considerable restoration work. Possible was restored as the appearance of the house and the furniture inside it. The furniture, utensils and clothing - an exact copy of what was used by the family Shakespeare, when I lived in the house.