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50. Shakespeare & the Globe Theatre, London
In this podcast Neil takes us to a place where all our modern senses and sterile sensibilities are thrown into shock. London at the turn of the C17th was a major metropolis, a city teeming with life, where pestilence and poverty sat cheek by jowl with great wealth and riches. A major industrial centre it was ripe with every stink of animal and human imaginable, streets crowded and claustrophobic, some lined with the rotting body parts of dismembered criminals.
Striding into this world came William Shakespeare, a man who had the power to entertain the thongs. Conjuring and conceiving magical…
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