MAPPING SHAKESPEARE'S WORLD

he locations of Shakespeare's plays range from Greece, Turkey and Syria to England, and they range in time from 1000 BC to the early Tudor age. He never set a play explicitly in Elizabethan London, which he and his audience inhabited, but always in places remote i n space or time. How much did he - and his contemporaries - know about the foreign cities where the plays took place? What expectati ons did an audience have if the curtain rose on a drama which claimed to take place in Verona, Elsinore, Alexandria or ancient Troy? This fu...[Read more]