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There is a bust of William Shakespeare which was commissioned to be done by his wife, Anne, which is in the church near where he is buried.
It was customary to buy a burial plot in the cemetery which surrounds the cathedral but Shakespeare refused to purchase his plot outside the church in the cemetery. It was tradition to bury a person and then dig up the remains 20 years later for cremation. Then once the burial spot became available again, it was sold (rented) again.
Shakespeare did not want his remains to be dug up and cremated 20 years after he died so he was buried in the floor of the church in front of and to the left of the alter where his body was guaranteed to remain undisturbed. He prepared the words which were placed on his grave which was really a curse – to anyone who dug up his bones!
We were told it was the only known grave in the world in a church with a curse written on it.
There were several very elaborate sarcophaguses in the church, Shakespeare's final resting place was by far the most modest, it was only a marked spot in the floor with the headstone with the curse.
Translated into modern English, here is the curse:
Good friend, for Jesus sake forbear,
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Bless be the man who spares these stones,
And cursed be he who moves my bones.
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