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Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of Southwark district

Southwark: a place for entertainment in Shakespeare's time. The southbank of the river Thames in London was reached from the city only by boat, or across London Bridge. This area, called Southwark, ...

Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of St Paul's and the 'city'

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 ...

Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - Westminster (site of the Houses of Parliament) and on the opposite bank Lambeth Palace.

Westminster, and Whitehall Palace in Shakespeare's time. To the west of the city of London, reached by road through semi-rural suburbs or by river boat, lay the centre of government at Whitehall Palace ...

Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c.1572 - detail -The Tower of London.

The Tower of London in Shakespeare's time. The fortress on the banks of the tidal river Thames was a royal palace, and a prison stronghold. It also housed the royal armoury and a public menagerie. ...

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 ...

Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium,c. 1572 - detail - the east of the city and St. Paul's cathedral

St Paul's and the city of London: known by Shakespeare. The city of London, to which Shakespeare travelled in the 1580s, lay within an almost semi-circular wall, bordered to the south by the River ...

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 ...

Giambattista Geraldi Cinthio, Hecatommithi, 1580 - p.252, of vol 1: colophon

A printer's details on an Italian Shakespeare sourcebook. The 'colophon', or printer’s note was often placed on the final page of a book on its completion. This, at the end of Hecatommithi, part ...

Giambattista Geraldi Cinthio, Hecatommithi, 1580 - binding

A continental binding contemporary with Shakespeare. Vellum was occasionally used for decorative bindings, especially on the continent of Europe. This binding, probably from Venice, has neat gilded ...

Giambattista Geraldi Cinthio, Hecatommithi, 1580 - Othello reference, vol.2, p.159.

Othello and Desdemona, Shakespeare’s Italian source. The Hecatommithi, a collection of prose tales told by travellers sailing from Rome to Marseilles, includes the story of Disdemona [sic] and ...

Giambattista Geraldi Cinthio, Hecatommithi, 1580 - Othello reference, Vol.2, p.159 detail.

A Shakespeare source: The story of Othello. Novella 7 in the third part of Hecatommithi is the story of an ensign who seeks revenge when his lust for 'Disdimona' is rejected. It was this tale that ...

Giambattista Geraldi Cinthio, Hecatommithi, 1580 - printer's device, title page volume 2, detail.

A printer's device on a Shakespeare Italian sourcebook. Many of the books to be found on the bookstalls of cosmopolitan Elizabethan London were imported from the printing houses of France, and Italy. ...

Giambattista Geraldi Cinthio, Hecatommithi, 1580 - title page, Vol 2.

A source in Italian for Shakespeare. It is not known whether Shakespeare ever travelled abroad, but several Italian sources for his plays had no published English translation at the time he was writing. ...

Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, 1620 - book 2 p.13v

Fine printing in Shakespeare's time. This volume was printed by Isaac Jaggard who worked alongside his father, William, and later inherited the family printing house. Isaac’s fine edition of ...

Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, 1620 - book 2, p.112r detail

Fine printing in Shakespeare's time. The engravings in Jaggard’s edition of Boccaccio do not illustrate the individual stories, but were used to decorate title page and then, possibly to save ...