Rosemary Hill
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The key to architectural developments, and also to go back slightly to what we were saying earlier about astrology and geometry and so on, his unrealized plan, like many ambitious architects, he was going to rebuild everything.
But if you look at his ground plan for what he wanted to do for Whitehall Palace,
And he went on, of course, after James's death to work for Charles I, who was quite keen on these ideas.
But you see circles within triangles, the apex of the triangle at the altar.
And also by this stage, if not earlier, Jones has his eye on the Escorial, and he wants to give the Stuart monarchy something on that level.
And Charles I was not at all averse to that.
Hello, and welcome back to London Revisited, a close reading series from the London Review of Books.
I'm Rosemary Hill, and I'm delighted to be joined again by Vanessa Harding, Professor Emerita of London History at Birkbeck.
Hello, Vanessa.
Hello, Rosemary.
We've got to London in the 1590s, one of the most celebrated, perhaps the most familiar periods in its history.
This is the London of theatres and particularly, of course, the London of Shakespeare.
Of a thriving print culture, it's a city reshaped by the Reformation and spreading alarmingly, for some people,
into the surrounding countryside.
Then it's an extraordinary moment and we're going to start by going to Shakespeare's Globe in Southwark in 1599 in the company of a Swiss tourist called Thomas Plater.
Not only is it very obvious that Thomas Plater was interested in absolutely everything except the play,
So those of us who fantasize about visiting Shakespeare's London and imagining it would be wonderful to hear and see these plays need to be aware that there were then, as there are now, people who just eat nuts and look around at other people.
But what we might also notice is that very interesting detail right at the end.
where he talks about the actor's costumes, these really rather grand clothes.
making do and mending up to a point.
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