Shakespeare's London On Five Groats A Day - Hardcover

'A joy to read, and to look at ... full of delights and packed with detail. Public, academic and college libraries should stock this book, both for the pleasure of their users and to provide them with a slightly unusual way of researching the London of Shakespeare's time' - Reference Reviews 'An amazing little book that will become indispensable to students of Elizabethan and Stuart history as well as to those studying Shakespeare's plays' - Contemporary Review 'A light-hearted and novel way to revisit the London of Shakespeare's day from a safe distance ... a lively guide' - Times Literary Supplement 'A lively, elegantly illustrated and illuminating guide ... it's time travel and it's fun ' - The Times

This entertaining and fact-packed guide provides all the information you'll need to travel back in time to elizabethan London a booming city of courtiers, cutthroats, merchants, beggars, lawyers, dramatists, apprentices and adventurers.