Time-Traveller's Guide to British Theatre PB notebooks Beginning in 1592

Beginning in 1592

So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true

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and charting how his legacy has grown over the centuries

John Ford questions the value of emotional repression as his characters attempt to subdue their desires and hatreds in ancient Greece

Time-Traveller's Guide to British Theatre PB notebooks Beginning in 1592British theatre is booming. But where do these beautiful buildings and exciting plays come from? And when did the story start? To find out we time travel back to the age of the first Queen Elizabeth in the sixteenth century, four hundred years ago when there was not a single theatre in the land. In the company of a series of well characterised fictional guides, the eight chapters of the book explore how British theatre began, grew up and developed