The next four years were spent as a Fellow at the University of Birmingham's Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Her house, Mason Croft, still stands on Church Street and is now the home of the Shakespeare Institute.

In 1996 he was commissioned by the Shakespeare Institute to paint any Shakespearean character.

She obtained five degrees in all, ending with a Ph.D. from the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham.

Harris was born at Henley-upon-Avon, but the family soon moved to Birmingham, where he was later to become associated with the Shakespeare Institute.

Nicoll appointed him a fellow of the Shakespeare Institute in 1953.

After graduation, he studied at Oxford University, and at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford, England.

He was appointed to the Shakespeare Institute in 1993.

The university will mark the Bard's 425th birthday by inaugurating its new Shakespeare Institute.

In 1966 the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham awarded him an honorary title.