Robert Wilson (dramatist) character in the original versions of William Shakespeare's plays "Henry IV, Part 1" and "Henry IV, Part 2". Objections from descendants of the historical John Oldcastle, a Protestant martyr, appears to have been responsible both for the writing of the corrective "Oldcastle" play and the alteration of Oldcastle to Sir John Falstaff in later versions of the "Henry IV" plays. Also, Wilson has been proposed as a possible author of several anonymous Elizabethan plays, including "Fair Em", "The Pedlar's Prophecy", "A Larum for London", "Look About You", "Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes", and "A Knack to Know a Knave". As
Memorials to William Shakespeare is thought to have posed for the statue. It was bequeathed, along with Garrick's books, to the British Museum in 1779; in 2005 it was transferred to the British Library. Garrick later commissioned Roubiliac to produce a bust of the poet for his Shakespeare festival in Stratford in 1769; this is now in the Garrick Club in London. In 1788, in the exterior wall of John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery building, the architect George Dance the Younger placed Thomas Banks's sculpture "Shakespeare attended by Painting and Poetry", for which the artist was paid 500 guineas. The sculpture depicted Shakespeare, reclining against