Drury Lane Theatre opened #onthisday in 1663 and the current building was built 1812. A Grade 1 listed building in Covent Garden hosting plays ever since.
Interior view is from Rudolph Ackerman's 'Microcosm of London' 1808-11 (AN 20.1.5).
Found a Shakespeare thing; wrote about it in @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat....
Just out in 17th Century - my new article on Leonard Wheatcroft, the bard of Ashover, ”Poetry and the Politics of the Parish”. Featuring weathercocks, a non-elite manuscript miscellany, and lots of bellringing!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Spanish-English Translations Database, 1500 – 1640
This freely accessible database records translation activity between England & Spain in the early modern period, with detailed title page transcriptions, copy specific details and index of dedicatees & printers.
spanish-english-translation.ucl.ac.uk