Living with Shakespeare : : Saint Helen's Parish, London, 1593-1598 / / Geoffrey Marsh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
• VerfasserIn: Marsh, Geoffrey,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.) :; 179 colour illustrations 170 colour images and 9 tables

A microhistory of London’s St Helen's Parish, revealing the lives of Shakespeare’s neighboursIn the 1590s, Shakespeare was working with and writing for the Lord Chamberlain’s Men at The Theatre, Shoreditch while he was living in the parish of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate Street. Living with Sh...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Picture Credits
• Introduction: 1593, the Theatre, Shakespeare, Saint Helen’s, English and You
• PART I 1576, London, the Theatre and Hunting for China
• 1 1576: A Starting Point
• 2 James Burbage Plans His Theatre: The Theatre
• 3 Kick-Starting the British Empire
• PART II The Theatre, 1576–1598
• 4 James Burbage Builds the Theatre
• 5 Trouble at the Theatre
• 6 The Early Years of the Theatre: 1576–1586
• 7 The 1594 Changes at the Theatre and Shakespeare’s New Focus
• PART III The Parish of Saint Helen’s, Bishopsgate Street
• 8 William Shakespeare and the Parish of Saint Helen’s
• 9 Searching for Shakespeare’s Lodgings in Saint Helen’s
• 10 What Attracted Shakespeare to Saint Helen’s?
• PART IV Life, Death and Religion in Saint Helen’s
• 11 Saint Helen’s Church: The Anchor of the Parish
• 12 A Walk Round the Interior of Saint Helen’s Church
• 13 Dreaming of English Exploration, Trade, Wealth, Colonisation and Empire
• PART V Shakespeare’s Neighbours in Saint Helen’s
• 14 The Radical Doctors of Saint Helen’s
• 15 Dr Peter Turner Visits a Patient at the Sign of the Horse Head Inn
• 16 Lawyers, Musicians, an Antiquary and More
• 17 Saint Helen’s as a Microcosmos: A Theatre of London
• PART VI Bewitchment in London
• 18 Witchcraft in Thames Street
• 19 Mary Glover is Bewitched in All-Hallows-the-Less, Thames Street
• 20 An Exorcism in Shoreditch
• PART VII Coda: The Advancement of English
• 21 Honey or Cane Sugar?
• Appendix: Where Did Shakespeare Live in Saint Helen’s and Who Might Have Been His Landlord?
• 1 Introduction
• 2 What Accommodation in Saint Helen’s Would Have Appealed to Shakespeare?
• 3 Identifying the Location of Shakespeare’s Residence(s)
• 4 When did Shakespeare Leave Saint Helen’s?
• 5 Who Was John Pryn, Pryne, Prynne, Pryme, Prymme?
• 6 Who Was John Hatton?
• 7 Who Were Thomas Wrightson, John Harvey and Israel Jorden, Jordan, Jordaine, Jordayne, Jurden?
• 8 Who Were John, Antonia and Katherine Jeffrey?
• 9 Some Other Residents of Saint Helen’s in the 1580s and 1590s
• Bibliography
• Index