"Shakespeare's Chair: Material Culture and Literary Phantasms"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo333/
Author:
	Mencfel, Michał.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2023
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare Quarterly 74, no. 2 (2023): 114–38.
DOI:
	10.1093/sq/quad016
Annotation:
	Describes Princess Izabela Czartoryska's 1790 purchase of a chair purportedly belonging to Shakespeare, now in the national museum in Krakow, Poland. Traces the chair's provenance, noting its damage from political insurrections and reconstruction as part of a reliquary. Positions chair as "material relic" and "essential element of a poet's cult."
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Czartoryska, Izabela
Keywords:
	Poland
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Shakespeare as Influence, Shakespeare's Milieu
WSB Update:
	Fall 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo333