Early modern bankside

1500-1750/EM playground

when does the southwark school of glaziers open. Who were glaziers

1515. glass making people

Globe theatre

• opens in 1599

• burnt down in fire in 1613

• reconstructed/reopened in 1614

• closed by puritans in 1642 following the civil war

• demolished in 1644

• rebuilt in 1997 nearby and a popular tourist attraction

what and when did other theatres open

rose, globe, swan and hope theatres all opened up in the years 1586-1642

when were all theatres closed and why

in 1642 because of the puritans who were extreme protestants following the civil war

great fire of london

1666

great fire of southwark

1676

area in a theatre where standing tickets were

groundling

Bear and bull baiting rings/arenas

Enjoyed by all including Liz I. Nearly every town in Liz England had a bear and bull baiting ring.

Opposition to bull and bear baiting rings

• puritan ministers and other clergymen denounced the arenas as dens of idleness, and they said it encouraged gambling, drunkenness and prostitution

• many disturbed by violence being perpetrated against helpless animals

• English diarist John Evelyn said the games were a ‘rude and dirty pastime'

physical features of EMP bankside

• theatres - rose, globe, swan and hope

• new stone london bridge

• winchester palace

• clink prison

• brothels/inns

• paris gardens - street name ‘paris gardens’

• corner of street - ‘bear gardens’ ferryman’s seat

• bull and bear baiting arenas/rings

rose theatre

• shakespeare’s secret playhouse

• built in 1587

• survived until 1605 - owner decided not to renew lease bc of increased rent

• 1988 started digging it up

how many brothels operating in 16 century

18

reasonable blackman

• immigrant from africa

• accepted into society and married an english woman in 1587

• had kids and died in the plague

• was a silk weaver and had a successful weaving business as there was a blossoming silk trade

• had a house

• religion - buried in parish church

some foreigners blamed for spreading disease but mainly dutch and french

samuel pepys

diarist, visited anchor pub, recorded fire of london from window of pub/inn

cross bones graveyard

graveyard where prostitutes buried because decided they couldn’t be buried in a religious place because of their life of sin

priory of st mary overie

edmund shakespeare memorialised there

death of lancelot andrews

1624