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For information about the The Theatre, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the
For information about the Globe, a modern map marking the site where the it once
stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the
Bankside ran along the south bank of the Thames from Winchester House to the place where Blackfriars
Bridge would later be built. Described by Weinreb as redolent of squalor and vice,
the name
The history of the two Blackfriars theatres is long and fraught with legal and political struggles. The story begins in
The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
One of the lesser known halls or private playhouses of Renaissance London, the Whitefriars, was home to two different boy playing companies, each of which operated under several different names. Whitefriars produced many famous boy actors, some of whom later went on to greater fame in adult companies. At the Whitefriars playhouse in 1607–1608, the Children of the King’s Revels catered to a homogenous audience with a particular taste for homoerotic puns and situations, which resulted in a small but significant body of plays that are markedly different from those written for the amphitheatres and even for other hall playhouses.
Cheapside Street, one of the most important streets in early modern London, ran east-west between the Great Conduit at the foot of Old Jewry to the Little Conduit by St. Paul’s churchyard. The terminus of all the northbound streets from the river, the broad expanse of Cheapside Street separated the northern wards from the southern wards. It was lined with buildings three, four, and even five stories tall, whose shopfronts were open to the light and set out with attractive displays of luxury commodities (Weinreb and Hibbert 148). Cheapside Street was the centre of London’s wealth, with many
In
Smithfield was an open, grassy area located outside the Wall. Because of its location close to the city centre, Smithfield was used as a site for markets, tournaments, and public executions. From
Durham House was located in the Strand, west of Ivy Bridge Lane. It stood at the border between the Duchy of Lancaster and Westminster.
The Julian calendar, in use in the British Empire until September 1752. This calendar is used for dates where the date of the beginning of the year is ambigious.
The Julian calendar with the calendar year regularized to beginning on 1 January.
The Julian calendar with the calendar year beginning on 25 March. This was the calendar used in the British Empire until September 1752.
The Gregorian calendar, used in the British Empire from September 1752. Sometimes
referred to as
The Anno Mundi (year of the world
) calendar is based on the supposed date of the
creation of the world, which is calculated from Biblical sources. At least two different
creation dates are in common use. See Anno Mundi (Wikipedia).
Regnal dates are given as the number of years into the reign of a particular monarch.
Our practice is to tag such dates with
Project Manager, 2020-2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019-2020. Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. She published papers in
Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.
Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.
Research Assistant, 2000–2002. Hypertext student and Shakespeare student at the University of Windsor in Winter 2000. Tara Drouillard received her MA in English from Queen’s University in 2003 and now works in Communications.
Research Assistant, 2002–2003. Student contributor enrolled in
Research Assistant, 2004–2008. BA honours, 2006. MA English, University of Victoria, 2007. Melanie Chernyk went on to work at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria and now manages Talisman Books and Gallery on Pender Island, BC. She also has her own editing business at http://26letters.ca.
Research Assistant, 2002–2003. Joanna Hutz was an English Language and Literature honours student at the University of Windsor. She received a Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to pursue her MA.
Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–present. Associate Project Director, 2015–present. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to
Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
Having finished her bachelor’s degree at the University of Victoria, Jennifer went on to take a postgraduate degree at King’s College London. She completed her master’s in 2010 and is currently working on a PhD at King’s. Her doctoral project involves early modern non-literary documents and organizational theory.
Dr. Laura Estill is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University. She is editor of the World Shakespeare Bibliography. Her book,
Laura was one of MoEML’s earliest contributors, having participated in
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) who maintained the
Contract programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
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Mike is a graduate of the University of Victoria in anthropology and computer science. During his contract with the Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) in the mid-2000s, he co-developed the TEI encoding guidelines for
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.
Programmer at the University of Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) who worked on graphics and layout for the site in the fall of 2011.
Peter C. Herman is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. He is Professor of English Literature at San Diego State University. His most recent books include,
Royal Poetrie: Monarchic Verse and the Political Imaginary of Early Modern England
Kate McPherson is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. She is Professor of English at Utah Valley University. She is co-editor, with Kathryn Moncrief and Sarah Enloe of
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Pageantry student at the University of Windsor in Winter 2000.
Revenge tragedy student at the University of Windsor in Winter 2001. Victoria Abboud completed her MA in English at Wayne State University in 2003, and her PhD at Wayne State University in 2010. She is now an instructor in the Arts and Education Department of Grande Prairie Regional College, Alberta.
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Now the city being like a vast sea, full of gusts, fearful-dangerous shelves and rocks, ready at every storm to sink and cast away the weak and unexperienced barkHenry Peacham,I, like another Columbus orDrake have drawn you this chart or map for your guide as well out of mine own as my many friends experience.
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The Agas Map is one of my favourite teaching tools. I use it to demonstrate the geographical relationship between the city and Renaissance theatres, to map out the routes of processions and pageants, and to show how theLord Chamberlain’s Men (later theKing’s Men ) moved their business operations from the Theatre in the north, to the Globe on the Bankside on the south side of the Thames, to the Blackfriars complex in the heart of the City of London.
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