Date:1619
Description:Stories of strange birds and beasts were brought back to Shakespeare’s London. In Shakespeare's The Tempest Trinculo, finding 'the monstrous' Caliban on the beach speculates on how an Englishman could make a fortune with tales of monsters 'Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man.' (2,2, lines 29-30). Full title: America Map of the Americas, from Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius Atlas, France, 1619. (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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