Geological Chronicle
Located in the Taurus–Littrow valley at latitude 20.2434° N and longitude 30.8158° E, Shakespeare crater measures 0.54 kilometers in diameter. Named by Apollo astronauts after English playwright William Shakespeare, the feature sits near several other named craters in the area, including Van Serg to the south, Cochise to the northeast, and a crater designated unofficially as Henry to the northwest.
In 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt landed southwest of the feature. Although they did not visit the crater directly, they drove around it during EVA 3.