Geoffrey Chaucer, Workes, 1602 - Family tree, p. A6r.
The author's family tree illustrates a Shakespeare sourcebook.
In this finely printed edition the preliminary pages of Chaucer’s Works include a portrait of the author, surrounded by an elaborate ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, Workes, 1602 - The Knight's Tale, Fol. 1, B1r.
The source for Shakespeare and Fletcher's play The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, in which pilgrims each contribute a story to entertain their fellow travelers, begins with the ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail
A merchant’s wife and her companion in Shakespeare's London.
Shakespeare's leading ladies frequently reflect contemporary practice by having a companion, or housekeeper, who is not a servant ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of a citizen and his servant
An alderman and his servant in Shakespeare's London.
The Londoner's fashionable gown with hanging sleeves is 'guarded' [edged] with fur. His servant carries a sword and buckler as a sign that he will ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of Londoners
Townsfolk of Shakespeare's England.
For country merchant class people such as the Shakespeare family the fashions of the city were slow to be adopted. Shakespeare was swift to comment in his plays ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c.1572 - A contemporary hand-coloured map of London
London: capital city of Shakespeare's England.
William Shakespeare came to London, England's capital city, about 1588. His career in the next twenty years was centred here, as he became the most popular ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c.1572 - 'Elizabethan' map of London
The walled City of London in Shakespeare's time.
Elizabethan London was surrounded by ancient walls, with entrances at Ludgate, Billingsgate, Newgate and Bishopsgate. The medieval maze of streets within ...
George Keppel
A photographic portrait of Major George Keppel in 18th century fancy dress.
This photograph was taken at a costume ball, Bal Poudre, at Warwick Castle in 1895.
Frances Evelyn Brooke (or Daisy), ...
George Tuberville, The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting, 1611 - A royal picnic, p.91.
A picnic for Shakespeare's royal patron.
Among the many engravings of huntsmen and their dogs that illustrate Turberville’s book of the chase, is this of the mid-day break for a meal with wine, ...
George Tuberville, The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting, 1611 - p. 35.
Hunting with dogs as in Shakespeare's plays.
Turberville’s handbook covers the training of dogs for hunting deer or hare. The woodcut illustrations show the kind of hunt Shakespeare would have ...
George Tuberville, The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting, 1611 - title page.
The care of hunting dogs in Shakespeare's time.
Turberville’s handbook was popular in Queen Elizabeth’s time and was reprinted after James I succeeded her on the English throne. The care ...
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, 1620 - title page, book 2
A Shakespeare source with a fine binding.
This volume's fine binding given to it by a nineteenth-century owner, is in green Morocco goatskin, with fine gold-tooling, including decoration along the ...
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Modell of witt [Decameron Book 1], 1625 - title page, p.A2r.
Italian stories provide source material
Giovanni Boccaccio is known chiefly for Decameron, which was written in 1353. This is a collection of a hundred tales told by ten people who have taken refuge ...
Girdle
This is a Zulu beaded girdle. It is made of four thick strands of green glass beads, and decorated with red beads. Within South African culture beadwork ornaments were made by the women, and worn by both ...
Girdle
This beaded girdle was worn by the people of Basutoland, South Africa. It is made of four thick strands of black and pink glass beads, and decorated with panels of green, white and black beads. Within ...
Girl with Cherries
This is an oil painting on canvas of a young girl holding a bunch of cherries and a sprig of red flowers. Cherries are tradtionally held in the hand of the infant Christ and religous overtones like this ...
Glasses and Box
These spectacles belonged to Isaac Evans, the brother of George Eliot. Their father, Robert Evans, had passed them down to him. Isaac and his sister had been close when young, but later disagreed over ...
Glove
White elbow length kid glove with three pearl shaped buttons from Leamington Spa, 1952.