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Monday 11 May @ 6.30pm online
BEFORE THE ROSE: MARLOWE AT THE CURTAIN
Dr Callan Davies takes you back to the years around 1587, when The Rose is being built on Bankside and Christopher Marlowe is living up in Shoreditch, close by to The Curtain Playhouse.
£8 / £5
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If you're interested in #ChristopherMarlowe, you might like to read my new note on Marlowe as an auditor of the ParkerLibrary's collections in Cambridge. Thanks to Tuija @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social for all your help! 🗺️📚🌎 @marlowemightyln.bsky.social @marlowestudies.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/note...
Does anyone know what might be a realistic weekly rent in London in c1602? I’m thinking Shakespeare with the Mountjoys. Thank you for any leads on this.
This vignette has it all.
It's February 1595/6 and Richard Bancroft (yes that Richard Bancroft) is at Fishmongers' Hall about a 'mishapp' over a lease of a property in Pudding Lane. It transpired that 'a mowse hath eaten of the Seale of the Lease' and could he please have another one. 1/2
This delightful map of Dartmoor (showing Ashburton to Buckland-in-the-Moor, featuring Ausewell Rocks) was part of an Exchequer case in 1605, for settling the bounds of Ashburton manor: discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3...
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