To watch a play in the same space – the hall of Gray’s Inn – where it was first staged in 1566, and which has hardly ever been produced since,…
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55 Pall Mall now . . . and then I HAVE occasionally wondered why 52 Pall Mall looks so different to its neighbours. The answer is…
Gray’s Inn Hall where Shakespeare probably performed The Inns of Court are London’s most astonishing survivors and also among the least known to most of its citizens. Visiting them –…
Taking The Bard for Granted (reprinted, courtesy of @LondonHistorian) by Victor Keegan In Staunton, Virginia there is a loving re-construction of the Blackfriars Theatre which after 1608 was the main…
Edit AMONG the nooks and crannies of the City this has to be a favourite, not least because I worked for several years in the same street – London Wall…
The statue on the left can be seen at the far end of Shakespeare’s Garden in Stratford-upon-Avon. partly hidden by the surrounding trees. But it used to be…