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2 de oct. de 2023 · Gheerhaerts portrait of Sir Francis Drake, 1591, Public Domain. Source Maria as told by an anonymous sailor. A document called the “Anonymous Narrative” relays an account of Drake’s circumnavigation voyage, including the presence of Maria, a woman of African heritage, who was taken from a Spanish ship onto the Golden Hind, then, nine months later, set on an island while pregnant and left ...
In this opening programme Neil looks at how Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the globe changed the way Shakespeare's audiences viewed the world and their country's place on it. For the ...
3 de ago. de 2021 · It is set in a historic 16th-century building and really brings to life what life would have been like for William Shakespeare (including other contemporary notable people like Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Drake, Henry VIII as well as normal people of the period). Every week the museum organizes a walk around the town with "Shakespeare."
Sir Francis Drake Biography. Sir Francis Drake (1540 – January 28, 1596) was an English sailor, slave-trader, pirate, explorer and – during the Armada – vice-admiral of the British fleet. He captured a fortune in gold from raiding Spanish ships and ports. He was also the first Englishman to sail all the way around the world.
8 de nov. de 1995 · ABSTRACT. The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of ...
9 de ago. de 2015 · Pipes with cannabis residue were found in the Bard's garden. State-of-the-art forensic technology from South Africa has been used to try and unravel the mystery of what was smoked in tobacco pipes ...
11 de sept. de 2014 · Featuring contributions from thirty-eight international scholars, the book takes a thematic approach to a period which saw the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the explorations of Francis Drake and Walter Ralegh, the establishment of the Protestant Church, the flourishing of commercial theatre and the works of Edmund Spencer, Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare.
