The Story of the Elizabethans - 2020
The play’s Country folk celebrate May in a woodcut illustration for The Shepheardes Calender by Edmund Spenser (1579). During El ...
one thing... Elizabeth’s reign is renowned as the dawn of English theatre, when timeless talents such as Shakespeare and Marlowe ...
It’s been estimated that by 1610 London’s total theatre capacity on any given night was some 10 ,0 00 I n 1567, London grocer Jo ...
GE TT Y^ I MA GE S Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting of The Fight between Carnival and Lent, painted in 1559, the year of the ...
their horses; taverns sold wine, along with beer and ale, and likewise usually attracted a better class of client; alehouses, th ...
shovegroat or shovelboard, the antecedent of the more-modern amusement shove ha’penny. Bowling alleys were attached to many aleh ...
again more predominantly among the rich, was reading. Levels of literacy – and, indeed, methods of accurately measuring literacy ...
IT’S THE ELIZABETHANS! HOLD YOUR NOSES... Ian Mortimer prepares prospective time travellers for the sights, sounds, smells and t ...
Elizabethan lives / Senses BR ID GE MA N T raditionally, the past is something we look at from afar. The very act of ‘doing hist ...
BR IDG EM AN /G ET TY IM AG ES The aural experience Bells and bagpipes shatter the silence I n modern times there have been vari ...
Elizabethan lives / Senses P opular culture would have you believe that all Elizabethans are smelly (like everyone else living b ...
Feeling you r way Visiting the surgeon could prove a real pain T he darkness we encountered in the visual world discussed on pag ...
Elizabethan lives / Senses T he past 50 years have been the most complacent and least fearful half-century ever experienced in B ...
BOOK The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer (The Bodley Head, 2012) DISCOVER MORE Dr Ian Mortimer i ...
Spectre at the feast An allegory depicting Elizabeth I in her later years, with the figure of death looking over her shoulder – ...
The Elizabethan era is often painted as a golden age. Yet, says James Sharpe, for many thousands of people life was far from gol ...
I nterest in Elizabeth I and her reign seems limitless, and invariably suffused with admiration – an attitude epitomised in The ...
300 Londoners, marching north to embark for war service in Ireland, mutinied at Towcester, elected a leader and took over the to ...
rise in property offences (larceny, burglary, house-breaking and robbery) – from an average of around 250 a year in the early 15 ...
GE TT Y^ I MA GE S GREAT PALACES OF ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND Tracy Borman tours six of the Tudor era’s finest palaces and halls – and ...
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