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Southwark

Walking with Shakespeare is a text message and audio walking tour of Shakespeare's London narrated by Vic Keegan.


What would Shakespeare make of Southwark today?


Where were you happiest to arrive and why?

Southwark Cathedral, then Shakespeare's parish church where his brother Edmund is buried. Also associated with Gower, Chaucer and John Harvard, founde
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Just south of the river is Southwark Cathedral formerly a parish church which Shakespeare would have visited (along with Chaucer, Fletcher, Gower and
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where it is

Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge
London
SE1 9DA

telephone

020 7367 6700

email

cathedral@southwark.anglican.org

mobile help mobile help

From your mobile, text SOUTHWARK then your message to 07786202844.
To read messages, just text SOUTHWARK and nothing else."

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Southwark image from www.flickr.com Southwark image from www.flickr.com Southwark image from www.flickr.com Underneath these stones lie the remains of the original Globe Theatre. Most of the remans lie under an adjoining building which is listed and so can't be touched (yet . . .) Behind this door are the remains of the Rose Theatre where Shakespeare and Marlow performed. It is opened to the public from time to time An interesting bit of old London Wall  in the foreground and the site of something even more interesting  to the right of the picture. It is the site of the house where Shakespeare lodged in 1612, though there is  nothing there to inform people. You can find it in London Wall on the opposite side of the road to Noble Street  . . . in Blackfriars where he purchased the gatehouse of the former Blackfriars' monastery  in 1613. The deed with Shakespeare's supposed signature is on view at the British Library.

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