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.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 ...
Jodocus Hondius, America, 1619 Map of the Americas - whole map, hand-coloured.
The Americas in the reign of James I, Shakespeare’s patron.
Courtiers of James I were familiar with travelers returning from the new found lands of North and South America, including Sir Walter ...
Michael Drayton, Polyolbion, 1613 - Map of Warwickshire, plate between p. 212 & p. 213.
Contemporary writers in Shakespeare’s County.
William Shakespeare's native county of Warwickshire in the English Midlands was illustrated in the long poem, Polyolbion, by Michael Drayton. The ...
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1577, 'History of Scotland', - a siege, woodcut, p. 231, detail.
War in Europe in Shakespeare’s time.
War between the states of Europe was common in the sixteenth century and Queen Elizabeth's armies, and navy fought against the Spanish, and in the Low Countries ...
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1577, 'History of Scotland', - naval conflict, woodcut, p. 233, detail.
Sea-battles in Shakespeare’s time.
Throughout Shakespeare’s early years in London there was continual war between England and Spain, culminating in 1588 with the defeat of the Spanish Armada ...