Date:1603
Description:The world travelled by Shakespeare's characters: Antony, Octavia, and by Pericles. The small pocket version of Ortelius’s great atlas of the known world includes a view of the Eastern Mediterranean in wich Shakespeare set several plays including Antony and Cleopatra and Pericles, both written about 1607, about three years after he completed Othello, most of which is located in Cyprus. Full title: Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worlde. Now latlye renewed and augmented. The mappes all newe grauen by Michael Coignet. London, printed for Ieames Shawe, 1603.
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Donor ref:SR 87 [8,131] (32/10453)
Source: The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - Library
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