Bridewell: The Palace that became a Prison
Not Just the Tudors
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Shakespeare in London
Shakespeare probably was very excited at the thought of going to london. But his sense is that that excitement and sense of wonder fairly quickly wore off. You'd cross london bridge and see heads on pikes. People carried rapiers quite openly, pretty much everywhere. So you get in a pub quarrel, and things could go very badly wrong as marlowe shows us - exactly.
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