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Shakespeare's London on Five Groats a Day Richard Tames

Shakespeare's London on Five Groats a Day von Richard Tames

Shakespeare's London on Five Groats a Day Richard Tames


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Zusammenfassung

Provides the information to travel back in time to Elizabethan London. This book helps you: find out the best way to the capital and where to stay; saunter over London Bridge, with its hundreds of shops and houses; glimpse Her Majesty at Whitehall, Europe's largest palace; and, watch the finest plays and players at the Rose Theatre.

Shakespeare's London on Five Groats a Day Zusammenfassung

Shakespeare's London on Five Groats a Day Richard Tames

This entertaining and fact-packed guide provides all the information you'll need to travel back in time to Elizabethan London - a booming city of courtiers, cutthroats, merchants, beggars, lawyers, dramatists, apprentices and adventurers. Find out the best way to the capital and where to stay. Saunter over London Bridge, with its hundreds of shops and houses. Glimpse Her Majesty at Whitehall, Europe's largest palace.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 Sir Francis Drake sailed around the world. This intriguingly addictive guide provides all you need to know to sight see, shop and meet the famous in the capital of a nation stirring to greatness.

Shakespeare's London on Five Groats a Day Bewertungen

'A lively, elegantly illustrated and illuminating guide ... it's time travel and it's fun ' - The Times
'A light-hearted and novel way to revisit the London of Shakespeare's day from a safe distance ... a lively guide' - Times Literary Supplement
'An amazing little book that will become indispensable to students of Elizabethan and Stuart history as well as to those studying Shakespeare's plays' - Contemporary Review
'A joy to read, and to look at ... full of delights and packed with detail. Public, academic and college libraries should stock this book, both for the pleasure of their users and to provide them with a slightly unusual way of researching the London of Shakespeare's time' - Reference Reviews

Über Richard Tames

Richard Tames lectures on history at Syracuse University London and is a Blue Badge guide. His twenty books on British history include England's Forgotten Past.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preparing for your Visit * Getting There, Settling In * Londoners * The Inner Man - and Woman * Law and Order * Meet Famous Elizabethans Shopping * Celebrations * Entertainment * Must-See Sights * Away Days

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR001551598
9780500251508
0500251509
Shakespeare's London on Five Groats a Day Richard Tames
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Gebundene Ausgabe
Thames & Hudson Ltd
20090505
152
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