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Old and New London
… carrying on the siege of Harfleur, a siege celebrated by Shakespeare. It is said that in his last mayoralty King Henry …
Old and New London
… in Henry VIII.a play considered by many persons to be not Shakespeare's writing at all, and by some others only partly … passage seems to imply that there were low theatres in Shakespeare's time near Tower Hill and Limehouse, or did he … Essex. The poems of Spenser furnished many suggestions to Shakespeare, who probably derived from them the story of King …
Old and New London
… The first milled money (the "mill-sixpences" mentioned by Shakespeare) was coined in this reign, and silver …
Old and New London
… to other matters than horses. In Love's Labour's Lost Shakespeare says, "Your love, perhaps, is a hacknie." In …
Old and New London
… author's name, it was long the fashion to attribute it to Shakespeare, just as it was in later times to ascribe it to …
Staffordshire Historical Collections
… This John Dyott is supposed to be the person introduced by Shakespeare into the dialogue between the Justices Shallow …
Survey of London
… divided into two parts which were later converted into the Shakespeare's Head Tavern and the Bedford Coffee House. The … 14), and the northern part (No. 13) was converted into the Shakespeare's Head, or Shakespeare, Tavern and Coffee House. The exact date of the …
Survey of London
… independent experiment, when William Poel produced for the Shakespeare Reading Society a performance of Measure for … Dec. 1892. Ibid., 10 Nov. 1893; see also A. C. Sprague, 'Shakespeare and William Poel', University of Toronto …