The Gower Memorial Prince Hal
by Terri Waters
Title
The Gower Memorial Prince Hal
Artist
Terri Waters
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
In Bancroft Gardens is the Gower Memorial.
The Bancroft was originally an area of land where the townspeople grazed their animals, and the Canal Basin formed the terminus of the Stratford-to-Birmingham canal, completed in 1816. The Gardens also occupy the site of
former canal wharves, warehouses, and a second canal basin, which was built in 1826 and refilled in 1902 Bancroft Gardens were extensively re-developed during 2009 - 2010 with new planting, new flower beds, a new
bridge and viewing platform over the lock that forms the entrance to the canal basin.
The Gower Memorial was presented to the town of Stratford in 1888 by Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower.
The statue features William Shakespeare seated on a pedestal, surrounded at ground level by figures of four literary characters featured in a selection of his plays.
Prince Hal, Lady Mc Beth, Hamlet and Falstaff were intended to be emblematic of Shakespeare's creative versatility: representing Philosophy, Tragedy, History, and Comedy.
The statue of Prince Hal is portraying a scene from Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 2 Act IV, Scene iv.
Prince Hal is raising the crown of his father, Henry IV, to put on his own head thinking his father is dead.
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February 10th, 2013
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