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Silver Street was a small but historically significant street that ran east-west, emerging out of Noble Street in the west and merging into Addle Street in the east. Monkwell Street (labelled Muggle St. on the Agas map) lay to the north of Silver Street and seems to have marked its westernmost point, and Little Wood Street, also to the north, marked its easternmost point. Silver Street ran through Cripplegate Ward and Farringdon Within Ward. It is labelled as Syluer Str. on the Agas map and is drawn correctly. Perhaps the most noteworthy historical fact about Silver Street is that it was the location of one of the houses in which William Shakespeare dwelled during his time in London.

(SILV1.xml) Blackfriars Theatre

The history of the two Blackfriars theatres is long and fraught with legal and political struggles. The story begins in 1276, when King Edward I gave to the Dominican order five acres of land.

(BLAC6.xml) The Globe

The Globe was the open-air, public theatre in which William Shakespeare was a shareholder. It was one of the theatres at which the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, later the King’s Men, regularly performed. Most of Shakespeare’s plays were performed at the Globe, along with the works of many other playwrights. It was an open-air, polygonal theatre with standing room around a thrust stage and three levels of gallery seating. It was built in 1599, burnt down in 1613, rebuilt in 1614 and closed in 1642. A modern reconstruction now stands a short distance from the site of the original in Bankside.

(GLOB1.xml) The Curtain

In 1577, the Curtain, a second purpose-built London playhouse arose in Shoreditch, just north of the City of London. The Curtain, a polygonal amphitheatre, became a major venue for theatrical and other entertainments until at least 1622 and perhaps as late as 1698. Most major playing companies, including the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, the Queen’s Men, and Prince Charles’s Men, played there. It is the likely site for the premiere of Shakespeare’s plays Romeo and Juliet and Henry V.

(CURT2.xml) Shoreditch

A suburban neighbourhood located just north of Moorfields and outside Londonʼs City Wall, Shoreditch was a focal point of early modern theatrical culture. Following a boom in Londonʼs population from 1550 to 1600, the neighbourhood became a prime target for development. The building of the Theatre in 1576 and the Curtain in the following year established Shoreditchʼs reputation as Londonʼs premier entertainment district, and the neigbourhood also featured a growing number of taverns, alehouses, and brothels. These latter establishments were often frequented by local players, of whom many prominent members were buried on the grounds of nearby St. Leonardʼs Church. Today, Shoreditch faces the potential revival of its early modern theatrical culture through the efforts of the Museum of London Archaeology and the Tower Hamlets Theatre Company.

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23 April 2014Happy 450th Birthday, Shakespeare!
Early Modern and Hipster Shakespeare of Shoreditch

MoEML just couldn’t resist joining in on all the celebrations of William Shakespeare this week. The Bard is believed to have been born (in 1564) on April 23rd and to have died on the same day some 52 years later in 1616. (We don’t actually know his precise birthdate, but we do know that he was baptised on April 26th and that, in the early modern period, baptisms typically took place within the first few days after birth. Also, it’s traditional to celebrate his birth on the 23rd because that happens to be St George’s Day in England!)

Shakespeare had connections to a number of neighbourhoods, streets, and playhouses in early modern London, including Southwark, Silver Street, Blackfriars’ Theatre, and the Globe Theatre. Research suggests that his Romeo & Juliet and Henry V were performed at the Curtain Theatre in the Shoreditch area of the city, for example.

MoEML will soon be publishing a new encyclopedia article on The Curtain that has been collaboratively written by our pedagogical partner, Kate McPherson, and her Shakespeare class at Utah Valley University. Assistant Project Director Kim McLean-Fiander recently had the pleasure to observe (via Skype) Kate’s class presenting their end-of-term findings, and was impressed by the excellent research the students had conducted on the neighbourhood, architecture, theatre companies, literary significance, playwrights, and archaeology of the playhouse. It was heartening to learn just how valuable MoEML’s Pedagogical Partnership has been both in teaching the students effective research skills and in instilling in them a genuine sense of enthusiasm about Shakespeare and early modern London.

We’ll let you know when their work has been posted to the site. In the meantime, you can get back to feasting on all the Shakespeareana in the news right now, including the supposed recent discovery of The Bard’s personally annotated copy of an early modern dictionary, Alvearie, or Quadruple Dictionarie, and the Folger Shakespeare Library’s measured response to this announcement.

Happy Birthday, Shakespeare!

Participants Tye Landels-Gruenewald Tye Landels-Gruenewald TLG

Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.

 Kim McLean-Fiander Kim McLean-Fiander KMF

Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–2020. Associate Project Director, 2015. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge digital humanities project at the University of Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts, and is interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler, Kim has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able to bring her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.

 Janelle Jenstad Janelle Jenstad JJ

Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2018).

 Martin D. Holmes Martin D. Holmes MDH

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.

 Kate McPherson Kate McPherson

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 Shakespeare Expressed: Page, Stage, and Classroom in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013); and with Kathryn Moncrief of two other edited collections, Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance (Ashgate, 2011) and Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2008). She has published numerous articles on early modern maternity in scholarly journals as well. An award-winning teacher, Kate is also Resident Scholar for the Grassroots Shakespeare Company, an original practices performance troupe begun by two UVU students.

Kate McPherson’s UVU profile William Shakespeare William Shakespeare

Playwright and poet.

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