The library could be summed up in three words — enormous, ancient and dusty — extremely dusty. It was exactly like those magnificent libraries you more or less see in every gothic movie. What’s more, I was thankful that I was not an asthmatic, for this was most definitely their form of hell.Anonymous
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The library in which Shakespeare was born and died was in a small town in Warwickshire. It was the home of the Earl of Oxford, who died in 1604. He had been a well-to-do landowner and patron of the arts, so he was well equipped to support the library he bequeathed to his nephew, Christopher Jonson. When this library passed to Jonson's son, it came into the hands of Shakespeare and his father.
The library became a very important part of Shakespeare's life and work. The particular location of the library isn't mentioned here, but we can assume it wasn't far from Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shakespeare lived and worked.
Source: Awakening
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