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Author | : James Barter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781590181461 |
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A visitors' guide to London in 1604, including what to see, where to stay, and where to eat, with sidebars on such topics as proper etiquette, famous residents, and student life at Oxford.
Author | : Richard Tames |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-06-23 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0500287937 |
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This fact-packed guide provides all the practical advice a tourist needs to travel back four centuries to explore the booming city of London. London is big and can be baffling, but don’t worry if you don’t know a buskin from a firkin. This is the book to put you right – how to read up in advance, how to get there, settle in and keep safe on the streets, how to meet the people and find out the famous. Saunter over London Bridge with its dozens of shops and houses. Wonder at Whitehall, Europe’s largest palace. Revere the tombs of kings in Westminster Abbey. Tour the Tower of London – an archive, armoury, mint, menagerie, prison and jewel house all in one building. Watch the finest plays and players at the Rose Theatre and marvel at the bustle of business in the Royal Exchange. Go down to Greenwich to stand on the deck of the Golden Hind, the ship that sailed round the world. London is the magnet for the talents of a nation stirring to greatness. Shakespeare bestrides the stage. At Elizabeth’s dazzling court Ralegh and Essex are rivals for her favour. From the shadows Dr Dee, mathematician and magician, proffers secret counsel to the Queen. T&H picture researchers Sally Paley and Alice Foster won the Longman-History Today award 2010 for Historical Picture Researcher of the Year for their work on Shakespeare's London on 5 Groats a Day.
Author | : David Thomas |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2016-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473881528 |
Download A Visitor's Guide to Shakespeare's London Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A fresh and colorful look at Shakespeare’s London published on the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death. In A Visitor’s Guide to Shakespeare’s London, readers can explore the streets of Shakespeare’s London and see the sights he saw, while learning how people ate, drank, misbehaved, and had fun. You will discover what it was like to be a tourist in the sixteenth century from the voices of people who came to London during Shakespeare’s day. You will travel with them to the major tourist sights and will learn how to get about, where to stay and what to eat and drink. You will visit the royal palaces, London’s famous gardens, the Tower of London and Old St Paul’s Cathedral. You will discover the pleasure of London’s theaters, the sports people played and the shopping they enjoyed. As now, London was famous as a shopping destination. But beware, London is full of people who will pick your pockets or trick you out of your money and you are constantly at risk from the plague or even the polluted water supply. Most of the London Shakespeare knew has been destroyed by fire, war and developers, but a surprising number of buildings and places he knew still survive. The book contains guided tours that allow you to sample the atmosphere and see the sights Tudor tourists enjoyed. This title will appeal to Shakespeare lovers, social history fans, fiction and drama lovers, students, and anyone with an interest in this fascinating era of London’s history.
Author | : Matthew Green |
Publisher | : Michael Joseph |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781405919142 |
Download London: a Travel Guide Through Time Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A guide to London that takes you back in time. This is a fascinating and unique guide to the capital that takes the reader off the beaten track and into unexplored territory through time to six key periods in the history of London. From Shakespeare to the plague, medieval London to the swinging 60s, readers can totally immerse themselves in the sights, sounds and smells of our capital. After reading this book you'll never rush through the streets of Covent Garden or St Paul's again without pausing for at least a moment to think of all the mad characters and epic lives that ran through the same streets centuries before.
Author | : Julie Ferris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : 9780753404102 |
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Author | : Ian Mortimer |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 1847921140 |
Download The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
We think of Queen Elizabeth I as 'Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes, like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake, and of great writers, such as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare.
Author | : Zoe Bramley |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2015-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1445646854 |
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The visitor’s companion to the places associated with William Shakespeare. Follow in his footsteps from Stratford-upon-Avon to London and theatreland
Author | : James Barter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2003 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Julie Ferris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780753452349 |
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In a travel guide format, presents a look at the sites and society that existed in London during the time of William Shakespeare.
Author | : R. E Pritchard |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2003-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0750952822 |
Download Shakespeare's England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A collection of some of the best, wittiest and most unusual excerpts from 16th- and 17th-century writing. "Shakespeare's England" brings to life the variety, the energy and the harsh reality of England at this time. Providing a portrait of the age, it includes extracts from a wide variety of writers, taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets by and about Shakespeare's contemporaries. These include William Harrison and Fynes Moryson (providing descriptions of England), Nicholas Breton (on country life), Isabella Whitney and Thomas Dekker (on London life), Nashe (on struggling writers), Stubbes (with a Puritan view of Elizabethan enjoyments), Harsnet and Burton (on witches and spirits), John Donne (meditations on prayer and death), King James I (on tobacco) and Shakespeare himself.