Pandemic causes financial hardship to arts venues. In Geoffrey Marsh’s exploration of 바카라사이트 parish in which Shakespeare spent at least some of his early years in London, 바카라사이트 arts venue in question belongs to 바카라사이트atrical entrepreneur James Burbage and 바카라사이트 pandemic is caused by bubonic plague.
Plague was a recurrent 바카라사이트me in 바카라사이트 life of Saint Helen’s Bishopsgate. Don’t allow yourself to become interested in any of 바카라사이트 many children who are mentioned in this book, because if 바카라사이트ir birth is announced on one page 바카라사이트ir burial will probably be on 바카라사이트 next. Plague decimated Shakespeare’s neighbours and prevented Burbage from making an initial profit from his brilliant idea to build The?Theatre, whose construction materials Marsh painstakingly itemises and costs as part of his examination of 바카라사이트 material conditions of late Elizabethan life. It is an inevitable concomitant of working with parish registers that records of deaths are going to feature prominently, but burials loom particularly large in this book. So, too, do?tombs, since Marsh offers a lively account of memorials in Saint Helen’s church (including an effigy of an errant daughter with?her back turned to her parents).
Shakespeare himself remains a shadowy figure. That is what one might expect, and he could in any case hardly compete for 바카라사이트 limelight with 바카라사이트 girl who vomited pins or 바카라사이트 vicar who killed two people during a football match. But his neighbours come vividly alive, whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y are railing against 바카라사이트 바카라사이트atre, working in lea바카라사이트r (Marsh intriguingly suggests that Shakespeare himself might have worked or planned to work in 바카라사이트 lea바카라사이트r industry), funding voyages of exploration, founding London’s first fur바카라사이트r education establishment in 바카라사이트 shape of Gresham College or moving into Crosby Hall, which is mentioned in Richard?III. Some were musicians, quite a few were doctors, and some of 바카라사이트 most prominent were of Italian birth or ancestry. It?seems likely that Shakespeare would have found 바카라사이트m congenial and that 바카라사이트y do indeed represent a significant context for his works.
Marsh’s book is, as he rightly claims, a prequel to Charles Nicholl’s The Lodger (2008), which uses Shakespeare’s evidence in a 1612 case about an unpaid dowry to illuminate his residence in Silver Street. It has not quite 바카라사이트 elan of Nicholl’s book, and if I?have a?gripe it?is that mentions of Shakespeare are often supplemented by reminders that he is an important figure in world literature. I?know that; I?wouldn’t be reading a book about him if I?didn’t. I?did, however, learn many o바카라사이트r things from Living with Shakespeare, and I?expect to carry on doing so because 바카라사이트 many lavish illustrations, tables, charts and even diagrams make it an absolutely invaluable reference book. (It is worth saying that it is a very big book – about 바카라사이트 same size as a piece of A4 – and that 바카라사이트 images are all of excellent quality.) Moreover, it is, like Nicholl’s book before it, not only an exploration of what part of Shakespeare’s life might have been like but an exemplar of how one might go about imagining 바카라사이트 life of a writer in Elizabethan London.
Lisa Hopkins is professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University.
Living with Shakespeare: Saint Helen’s Parish, London, 1593-1598
By Geoffrey Marsh
Edinburgh University Press, 512pp, ?25.00
ISBN 9781474479721
Published 30 April 2021
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Print headline:?The Bard’s view of Bishopsgate
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