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 city center. In the opinion of our contemporaries, the house seems to be simple and quite small, but in those days a home could afford only a very wealthy people. It is known that Shakespeare's father, John Shakespeare was a glove-maker and trading wool.

The architecture of the house is typical for the time. On the ground floor there is a living room with fireplace, large living room with an open hearth and down the hall - workshop host. On the second floor - three bedrooms. A small cottage and a room, which now houses the kitchen, were added to the house later.

Shakespeare himself was the house inherited after the death of his father, but by that time he already had a house in New Place, where he lived with his family. Therefore, the house on Henley Street was leased, and there was opened a small hotel.

Interest in the work of Shakespeare, and, consequently, to his life, increases again in the middle of the XVIII century. It begins a pilgrimage to the house where he was born playwright. Among the autographs left on the walls and window sills, we can see the names of Isaac Watts, Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott and Thomas Carlyle. In the book of honored guests left their autographs Byron, Tennyson, Keats and Thackeray.

In 1847, a specially created fund with the support of celebrities like Dickens, bought a house and spent considerable restoration work. If possible, it has been restored as the appearance of the house and the furnishings inside. Furniture, utensils and clothes - replicas of what the family enjoyed Shakespeare when I was living in the house.