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The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (pictured here in a late 19th-century photochrom) was a theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, beside the River Avon, constructed in 1879 to commemorate the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. This theatre burned down in 1926, and was replaced by the Elisabeth Scott-designed Royal Shakespeare Theatre, which still stands.Photochrom: Detroit Publishing Company; restoration: Adam Cuerden