Rear Left:
These our actors brought lustre to the Philadelphia stage
Thomas Wignell / William B Wood / Joseph Jefferson / John Drew /
Louisa Lane Drew / Charles Burke / Edwin Forrest / James E Murdoch
E L Davenport / John Drew Jr

Rear Center:
Erected 1928 by the Shakspere Society and the Fairmount Park Art Association
Wilson Eyre & McIlvaine architects / Alexander Sterling Calder Sculptor

Rear Right:
By their study of Shakespeare's works these scholars added
to the distinction of Philadelphia letters:
Joseph Dennye, First American editor of Shakespeare
Horace Howard Furness, editor of New Variorum Shakespeare
Asa Israel Fish, founder of the Shakespeare society of Philadelphia
Horace Howard Furness Jr, editor of New Variorum Shakespeare

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