Spartacus Review

Volume 34: 24th June, 2009

Tudor England

Title: Shakespeare's London

Author: Richard Tames

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Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Price: £12.99

Bookshop: Amazon

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This entertaining and fact-packed guide provides all the information youll need to travel back in time to Elizabethan London a booming city of courtiers, cutthroats, merchants, beggars, lawyers, dramatists, apprentices and adventurers. Find out the best way to the capital and where to stay. Saunter over London Bridge, with its hundreds of shops and houses. Glimpse Her Majesty at Whitehall, Europes largest palace.Watch the finest plays and players at the Rose Theatre, and marvel at the bustle of business in the Royal Exchange. Go down to Greenwich to stand on the deck of the Golden Hind, the ship that Sir Francis Drake sailed around the world. This intriguingly addictive guide provides all you need to know to sight see, shop and meet the famous in the capital of a nation stirring to greatness.