Abraham Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worlde, 1603 - binding
A binder's ornament on a book contemporary with Shakespeare.
The sturdy, leather binding on this copy of Ortelius' small atlas is the original which was probably created for the book’s first ...
Abraham Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worlde, 1603 - binding view.
Binding for everyday use in Shakespeare's time.
Elizabethan books were usually sold unbound, the price being set by a Stationers' Company ordinance, or regulation, of 1586 at 1d. [one old penny] per ...
Abraham Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worlde, 1603 - p. 103 The Turkish Empire.
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 ...
Abraham Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worlde, 1603 - p. 3 Asia.
Asia as it was known to Shakespeare’s contemporaries.
The trading ventures of Antonio, Shakespeare's merchant of Venice, involved ships sailing to many parts of the world in search of goods to ...
Abraham Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worlde, 1603 - p. 73, Padua, Italy.
The province of Italy inhabited by Kate and her sister in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
In The Taming of the Shrew Petruchio’s first words are 'Verona, for awhile I take my leave, to ...
Abraham Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worlde, 1603 - p. 90, Map of Ilyria.
Shakespeare's heroine, Viola, is shipwrecked in Illyria, a province in Ortelius’s atlas.
Illyria, ruled over by Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night, is the European state, now known as Croatia. ‘What ...
Abraham Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worlde, 1603 - p.1. The known world.
The world known to Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
English sailors, led by Francis Drake, first circumnavigated the world in 1578-1580. By this time the Dutch already had trading stations in India ...
Abraham Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worlde, 1603 - p.2, Europe.
Europe in Shakespeare’s time.
The maps of Ortelius, first printed in Antwerp in 1570, were republished in England in a small handbook format in 1603. Contemporary English writers, such as Shakespeare, ...
Abraham Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worlde, 1603 - p.6, England
Shakespeare’s England.
The pocket atlas of Ortelius was a useful handbook for all Elizabethans or Jacobeans who chose to travel, especially to Europe, either in person, or in their dreams of ...
Abraham Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worlde, 1603 - p.75, Verona, Italy
The Italy of Romeo and Juliet.
If Shakespeare knew the Ortelius maps he would have seen clearly the proximity of Verona, home of Juliet, to Mantua, the city to which Romeo goes after his banishment ...
Assise of Bread [John Powell, editor], 1608 - woodcuts, p.D1v, detail.
Bakers at work: Shakespeare's neighbours.
In towns few people baked their own bread on account of the dangers of chimney fires. The baker’s role was one of the most important in any community, ...
Assise of Bread [John Powell,editor] , 1608 - title page, p.A1r.
Bakery regulations: a source for Shakespeare.
The woodcuts in this official government text that regulated the work of bakers show the work of kitchens with which Shakespeare would have been familiar. ...
Assise of Bread [John Powell,editor] ,1608 - table of permitted weights of loaves, p.D2r.
Contemporary unrest provided ideas for the food riots in Coriolanus.
This page shows bakers at work above the official charts published for authorized legal weights of loaves of bread. In 1608 famine ...
Bible. English. The Bible translated, 1576 - blank leaf following Old Testament front page, owners' notes
Births and deaths recorded in a Bible of Shakespeare's time.
Family notes recording the birth of a son to Edward Lumley in 1695, and the death of Mary, the wife of a later owner, Robert Mason, in 1780 ...
Bible. English. The Bible translated, 1576 (Geneva version) - [?18th century] plate, illustration inserted p.67
A disobedient servant in Shakespeare's England.
Every Elizabethan home employed servants to assist with the daily tasks of housekeeping. Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew ...
Bible. English. The Bible translated, 1576 (Geneva version) - St Matthew, chapter 1, p. 5A1v.
The Christmas story: a source for Shakespeare.
The Christmas story as recounted by St. Matthew in his gospel was familiar to Shakespeare who refers to this ‘holy’ time of year in his play ...
Bible. English. The Bible translated, 1576 (Geneva version) - binding view
A family Bible from Shakespeare's time, in a repaired later binding.
Many of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, especially devout Protestants would have owned a so-called ‘Geneva’ edition ...
Bible. English. The Bible translated, 1576 (Geneva version) - notes on verso of front flyleaf .
An owner’s family notes in their Bible from Shakespeare's time.
This Bible has notes by a number of former owners whose signatures appear on the title-page. On the flyleaf a late Victorian owner ...