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Shakespeare's London- Walking tour with Mike Berlin
One-day course
+44 (0)20 7942 2000
V&A Academy events invite you behind the scenes to bring you closer to the places linked to the V&A extraordinary collections.
This walking tour will follow in the footsteps of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, searching out the places and spaces where drama was conceived and performed. Shakespeare probably arrived in London in the year 1592, finding a bustling and rowdy metropolis of over 200,000 people, living cheek by jowl in a warren of half-timbered buildings, studded with church spires, livery company halls and numerous taverns and alehouses. London was the centre for a vigorous playgoing tradition of public theatres, dramatic performances in Inns, as well as street pageants and fairs. This walk will explore the highways and by-ways of the ultimate theatrical city.
Please note that we cannot guarantee that this tour is fully accessible; there will be curbs, narrow and uneven pavements on this tour.
V&A Academy Course Director
Mike Berlin
Mike Berlin is a Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is a specialist in the social history of early modern London and has published extensively on the history of London’s guilds. Before joining Birkbeck, he was a research officer at the Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research.
I loved it all! An excellent walk with so much interesting information, hearing about the people that lived in the area and what their work and lives involved. Previous walking tour attendee
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One-day course: Shakespeare's London- Walking tour with Mike Berlin
22 November 2024
£70.00
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Open 10.00 - 13.00, Monday to Sunday (closed 24-26 December)
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