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Author: John Brooks Publisher: Pitkin ISBN: 9781841652870 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 24
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Set on a beautiful river at the very heart of England, Stratford would be visited by tourists even if the world's greatest playwright had not been born in the town in 1564.
Author: John Brooks Publisher: Pitkin ISBN: 9781841652870 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 24
Book Description
Set on a beautiful river at the very heart of England, Stratford would be visited by tourists even if the world's greatest playwright had not been born in the town in 1564.
Author: John Attwood Brooks Publisher: ISBN: 9780711720039 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 24
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Your Guide to Stratford-upon-Avon is a superb new value-for-money guide to the most famous sites and top attractions of this wonderful, historic town. The book includes over 50 colour photographs, a town map and walk route, and text which will accompany any visitor around the popular sights and sounds of Stratford, and prove an attractive souvenir of the experience. Sections include: Biography of Shakespeare; Town history; The Shakespeare Properties; The Theatres; Other attractions; Surrounding area; Town centre walk; This stylish and contemporary guide includes the heritage and tradition of Stratford along with the vibrant cultural life of the theatres and the charm of the surrounding area. At only 2.50 pounds this informative and attractive book will appeal to anyone who proposes to spend a day, a weekend or longer in Stratford, and doubles as a perfect memento of the trip.
Author: Paul Edmondson Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110705432X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 371
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This collection tells the life stories of the people whom we know Shakespeare encountered, shedding new light on Shakespeare's life and times.
Author: Annie Bullen Publisher: Jarrold Publishing ISBN: 9780711726475 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 108
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Stratford-upon-Avon, tucked into a pretty pocket of English countryside and displaying picturesque evidence of its 800-year history, would be a lure to visitors, even without its connection with William Shakespeare.
Author: Robert Bell Wheler Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230437545 Category : Languages : en Pages : 36
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 edition. Excerpt: ... local biography. Of several eminent characters, besides those be. fore noticed, who were born, or have resided, in Stratford, the limits of this work prevent a minute account being given. The more prominent features of their lives therefore can only be portrayed. john de stratford, i archbishop of canterbury. This celebrated divine, who was born about the beginning of the reign of Edward I. was son of Robert de Stratford, the first master of the Guild of the Holy Cross, by Isabel, his wife; persons, it may be presumed, of no mean situation in life. He was bred at Merton College, in Oxford; and was first promoted to the archdeaconry of Lincoln, for his prudent government of which jurisdiction, Reynolds, archbishop of Canterbury, made him his principal official, and dean of the arches. Shortly afterwards, Edward ii. appointed him his secretary, a member of the privy council, and ambassador to the court of Rome; where the Pope promoted him to the vacant bishoprick of Winchester, in opposition to the King's wishes, who intended that see for chancellor Baldock. This occasioned the new O bishop considerable trouble; for the disappointed Baldock caused his effects to be seized, his livings sequestered, the bishop to be summoned, and proclamation made that no man should afford him the common necessaries of life; but by the intercession of Reynolds he was restored to regal favor. Nor was the confidence of his royal master unacknowledged by the bishop's loyalty and gratitude; for when that unfortunate monarch, at the close of his reign, was almost deserted, Stratford adhered to him to the last hour; which meritorious conduct, though at first it enraged the Queen and Mortimer, who were then in power, ultimately occasioned them to appoint him lord
Author: Terry Deary Publisher: ISBN: 9780702325144 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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HORRIBLE HISTORIES GRUESOME GUIDES: STRATFORD-UPON-AVON takes readers on a gore-tastic tour of the streets of Stratford-upon-Avon exposing all its scurrilous secrets. With a frightful map tourists can plot their path to the past. Fatal fleabites, bloody battles and brutal beheadings, it's a trip no Horrible history fan will want to miss
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