Rosemary Hill

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490 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 7 Sep

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Close Readings · London Revisited: Shakespeare’s City · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

Also, presumably, if you were somebody's lady-in-waiting or chief valet and you inherited an incredibly elaborate set of doublet and hose or something, you wouldn't feel very comfortable about wearing them, even though we didn't actually have sumptuary laws.

It would have been regarded as, well, odd.

And so selling them on to a theatrical company

would have been a good idea.

But the other thing which becomes very clear from other people's accounts as well of the theatre at this date, and indeed all the way up to the 19th century, is that historical costume wasn't a thing.

So Thomas Plater is seeing Julius Caesar in a doublet and hose, and everyone is dressed in 1590s costume.

And we might wonder, I mean, London Bridge, of course, looms large in our consideration of London.

But Platter probably didn't go over London Bridge to get to the theatre, did he?

Yes, and the waterboatmen who knew how to manage the tides and the currents and get you to where you actually wanted to go, because if he had gone over the bridge, he wouldn't have actually arrived very near the theatre.

It wouldn't have been frightfully convenient.

And the waterboatmen, the ferrymen, were also, as indeed taxi drivers are to this day, a great source of news, gossip, information.

And so Plata goes to the globe.

We begin at this moment where we left off last time at the end of Mary's reign.

She died in 1558.

And we are on the brink of one of the great reigns of English history and in London's history too with Elizabeth.

But before we start on all that, just tell us, what does London look like now?

Before we get to the maps, talk a little bit more about the panorama.

What's in it?

So there's a certain parallel with what's going on in the writing of history.

It becomes more important to actually get the facts in rather than

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