Pictured is the Shakespeare Memorial in front of the Parkway Central Library on Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The sculpture is bronze on a marble base, and the artist was Alexander Stirling Calder 1870-1945. The two figures represent Comedy and Tragedy. The well known quote from As You Like It is inscribed on the base: `All the world`s a stage and all the men and women merely players`. The Parkway Central Library or Free Library is the main public library building and administrative headquarters of the Free Library of Philadelphia system.
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