Date:1572 - 1580 (c.)
Description:Shakespeare's city home. Shakespeare lodged in Bishopsgate in the 1590s, and later on the corner of Silver Street in Cripplegate. He would have been familiar with the many printers and bookshops in the area of St. Paul's churchyard, as he passed towards the river to reach the theatres on Bankside. Full title: Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, [from Civitates orbis terrarum. Coloniae Agrippinae, 1572 - c.1580](hand-coloured)
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'Londinium': ancient capital of Shakespeare's England. London had been founded ...
London Bridge, looking upstream in Shakespeare's time. London's medieval bridge ...
The Americas in the reign of James I, Shakespeare’s patron. Courtiers of ...
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