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The Barge was a tenement building located in Cheap Ward. The structure was the remains of a medieval manor house.
Research Assistant, 2018. Carly was a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. Her primary research interests included early modern literature, specifically drama and performance. She had a special interest in contemporary adaptations of early modern drama, especially the portrayal of onstage violence.
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.
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of Victoria in the Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) stream. He was specifically
focused on early modern repertory studies and non-Shakespearean early modern drama,
particularly the works of
Research Assistant, 2016-2018. Brooke Isherwood was a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, concentrating on medieval and early modern Literature. She had a special interest in Shakespeare as well as lesser-known works from the Renaissance.
Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
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Sheriff of London
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Father or
Cheap Ward is west of Bassinghall Ward and Coleman Street Ward. Both the ward and its main street, Cheapside, are named after West Cheap (the market).
The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
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Located in Cheap Ward, The Barge was, in described as houses called Bukerelesbury
as it was formerly owned by
(Carlin and Belcher 65). Eilert Ekwall notes that [t]he wealthy and influential Bukerel family is recorded in London from about
and that the property had probably descended to [
(Ekwall 196). In as a manor or great house in a great stone building, then surviving [only] in part
(Carlin and Belcher 65). This Mannor or great house hath of long time béene diuided and letten out into many tenements: and it hath béene a common speech that when the Walbrooke did lie open, barges were rowed out of the Thames, or towed vp so far, and therefore the place hath euer since béene called ye Old barge.
The
(Harben 46). Lastly, the houses [g]ave name to [the] street called Bokelersbury
(Carlin and Belcher 65), and, according to Harben, this name seems to have been formed early in the
(Harben 113).