Shakespearean plays

WHS mentioned in and/or setting for works of William Shakespeare

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Shakespearean plays':

  • Acropolis Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Kronborg Castle Hamlet
  • Mantua and Sabbioneta Mantua: It is the town to which Romeo was banished in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. (wiki)
  • Rome Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus
  • Tower of London Henry VI Act I Scene III "London -before the Gates of the Tower". Scene V "A room in the Tower", - and in other plays also (E.g Richard III)
  • Troy Troilus + Cressida
  • Tyre Pericles, Prince of Tyre - "Tyre -a room in the Palace"
  • Venice and its Lagoon The Merchant of Venice
  • Verona Romeo and Juliet
  • Vienna Measure for Measure
  • Westminster Henry IV II Act IV Scene 4 "Westminster -a room at the Palace"; Henry VI Act I Scene I "Westminster Abbey; There are others in Westminster or "The Parliament house" too