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Podcast: British History: Royals, Rebels, and Romantics
Episode: Shakespeare's London: The Temple, the Tavern, and the Tower (ep 52)
Description: We know London was very important to Shakespeare and his evolution from life in Stratford in the 1580s when he married and had children to the early 1600s when his company became the favored actors of the King and he dressed in the King’s livery. Shakespeare’s London was a place where fortunes were made and lost, where reputations were forged and destroyed, and where life could expand to include appearances and applause at court but could also be extinguished in a street fight or the executioners axe.London was where Shakespeare lived for 20 years (at leas...