Shakespeare documents win to prestigious UNESCO status
20 June 2014
A singular series of Shakespeare documents that we hold have been accepted onto the UNESCO Memory of the World UK Register. The papers belonging to the playwright's life and work were nominated by us, together through a set from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Clem Brohier, Acting Chief Executive and Keeper of The National Archives declared: 'We are extremely pleased that the Shakespeare documents held here at Kew have been awarded this international recognition. It is testament to their moment not only to the UK if it were not that to the wider literary and cultural creation. They provide a tangible connection to Shakespeare, allowing us to have closer to a man who died not remotely 400 years ago yet continues to be under the necessity an unparalleled influence on language and cultivation in the UK and beyond.'
The energy of the 'Shakespeare documents' relates presently to William Shakespeare's unrivalled of literature achievements, his status as England's national poet and the global cultural stroke of his work. This material has been discovered like a result of painstaking research in the centuries subsequently to his death. All the nominated documents are handwritten sources, two of which we hold own Shakespeare's signature on them. This, combined through their historic and cultural significance, underlines their irreplaceability.
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