Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of Southwark district
Southwark: site of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
When Shakespeare arrived in London, aged about eighteen, he found work, possibly as a tender of horses outside a playhouse known as The Theatre ...
John Norden, The View of London Bridge from east to west, [1597] - Southern bank details including a crane, and heads on spikes above the gateway.
The south end of London Bridge, close to Shakespeare’s Globe.
The southern end of London Bridge led directly into the parish of St. Mary Overy. This was a busy area for industry as is indicated ...
Robert Allott, compiler, England's Parnassus, 1600 - p. 182
‘Quotations’ from Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.
This anonymous collection of quotations includes the work of popular playwrights of the day including Christopher Marlowe, Thomas ...
Robert Allott, compiler, England's Parnassus, 1600 - p. 284
Shakespeare and other playwrights and poets are quoted in a popular anthology.
The spread of Shakespeare's influence was clear from the numerous quotations from his works, poems and plays, that were ...
Robert Allott, compiler, England's Parnassus, 1600 - p. 285
Shakespeare and other playwrights and poets are quoted in a popular anthology.
Writers on 'Time' who are represented in the Parnassus anthology include George Chapman, Thomas Lodge, Michael Drayton, ...
Robert Allott, compiler, England's Parnassus, 1600 - p. A6r.
A subject list of work by Shakespeare and his fellow writers.
The subject 'table' shows how the editor of England's Parnassus had chosen to group the quotations, to allow readers to search the book ...
Robert Allott, compiler,England's Parnassus, 1600 - p. 182, detail.
Shakespeare and other playwrights on ‘love’.
The Parnassus anthology groups quotations by their theme, including Marlowe on love. Christopher Marlowe, who was two months older than Shakespeare, ...
William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, 1631 - title page detail
Shakespeare’s acting company and their theatres.
In Shakespeare's time companies of actors needed a patron to exist within the law. The title-page of a 'quarto' paperback edition of one of Shakespeare's ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - Commendatory letter 'to the great variety of readers', p.A3r
Shakespeare’s friends write about the ‘First Folio’.
John Heminge and Henry Condell, Shakespeare's fellow members in the King's Men at the Globe wrote dedicatory and prefatory letters ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - Roles presented by actors in the play of 'Henry V', p. gg8 v
Characters listed for Shakespeare’s Henry V.
The 'First Folio' did not generally list the characters in a play, but Henry V is an exception. In the Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - The 'players', p. A6r - detail
Shakespeare’s fellow actors.
In the 'First Folio' of Shakespeare's plays, published seven years after his death the names of the principal actors in his company, the King's Men, are named. Richard ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623 'First Folio',- Ben Jonson's Poem, p. A4v.
Shakespeare's playwright friend Ben Jonson praises his work.
At the front of the plays in the 'First Folio' Shakespeare's friend and fellow playwright, Ben Jonson, describes William Shakespeare as ...