The Timetraveller's Guide to Shakespeare's London

by Joshua Doder, Mark Davis (Illustrator), Watling Street Publishing (Manufactured by)

Overview

It’s all here:
• Just who was Shakespeare? • What drew him to London and what did he find here? • A pub crawl with John Falstaff, Shakespeare’s fat felon • A day in the life of an Elizabethan actor • How to cope with Elizabethan heckling • Reviews of Shakespeare’s plays by Cecil Arduous, arts critic of The Great Fart • Which play did Queen Elizabeth ban? • Shakespeare’s mates—Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson • Life at the Globe Theatre • How to be an Elizabethan celebrity

William Shakespeare lived in one of the city’s most exciting periods—during Queen Elizabeth I’s reign. He is our greatest writer and this book recreates what life must have been like for him—from the low life of the taverns and the brothels, to the life of the court, all of which he experienced and all of which he put into his magnificent works.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904153108
Publisher:	Watling Street, Limited
Publication date:	04/28/2004
Series:	Timetraveller's Guide
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

Table of Contents

	Introduction	7
1	Stratford to London	9
2	Arriving in the City	17
3	The First Theatres	23
4	The River	29
5	London Bridge and Southwark	37
6	The Globe	45
7	Your Palace or Mine?	57
8	Lock Him in the Tower!	63
9	St Paul's Cathedral	69
10	Shakespeare's Friends	75
11	Eating and Drinking	85
12	Home to Stratford	89
	A List of Shakespeare's Plays	92
	Places to Visit	93