Shakespeare's London: A Study of London In; The Reign of Queen (Classic Reprint)

Under the tide Shakespeare s London I delivered a lecture in 1886, and again in the winter of 1887. A nother lecture on the same subject, delivered at the Working Men s College in 1893, I entitled Elizabethan London, partly because, in this lecture, I drew a contrast between Victorian London and the London of Shakespeare, but chiefly for the reason that I was then meditating the book which now sees the light, and reserved the title for this occasion. The book has grown out of these lectures, and it covers all the ground specially emphasised in each of them. I ts scope may be readily indicated by the themes of the lectures. In the first, I dealt chiefly with the theatres in Shakespeare sL
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