During the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the London district of Southwark was prospering (繁荣的), and a very important and far-reaching development was taking place at Bank side, and area situated just beside the church now known as Southwark Cathedral. The Rose Theater, the Swan, the Hope Playhouse and Bear Garden, were set up here along with famous Globe Theater, in which Shakespeare acted. William Shakespeare is commemorated(纪念)in Southwark Cathedral today by the modern me morial(纪念) window of the south aisle(通道). The window was designed by Christopher Web in 1954, after an earlier window had been destroyed in the war, and describes characters from Shake speare's plays. Below it is a figure of Shakespeare, carved by Henry M. Carthy in 1912, set against a background of seventeenth-century Southwark in relief(浮雕), showing the Globe Theatre, Winchester palace and the Tower of St. Saviour's Church. This memorial was provided by public support and was dedicated(奉献) in 1911, and every year a birthday service, attended by many great actors and actresses, is held here in honor of Shakespeare's genius (天才). Shakespeare's brother Edmund here in 1607, and although the position of Edmund's grave (坟墓) is unknown, he is commemorated by an inscribed (刻写). Shakespeare' s lifetime in Southwark was well known for ______