| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-347). |
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Issued also in electronic format. |
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Originally published under the title: Shakespeare's local. Great Britain : Macmillan, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2012. |
| Contents |
Prologue : concerning scandal, murder, smuggling, highwaymen, coffee, & C. -- In which we make the perilous and eventful journey to the George Inn, Southwark, from my house -- Concerning dates, names, Mutya, Heidi & C. -- Being some remarks on London's first bridge, and how this bridge gives our story its very shape -- On inns, taverns, alehouses, pubs and boozers. But mainly inns, and the distinctive nature thereof -- The poet's tale, or, how English literature was born in a Southwark inn -- In which we meet the inhabitants of sinful Southwark, and the patrons if its divers inns, taverns and alehouses -- Concerning bulls, bears, actors and other beasts, and their various 'entertainments', including the sad tale of a monkey on a horse -- Further unsavoury activities in inns and alehouses, and how these places were burn'd by almightly God's fury (if you believe in that sort of thing) -- Our inn enjoys a golden age of romance, highwaymen, complicated timetables and sore posteriors -- Concerning drink, hops and politics, and how the George Inn brings these elements together -- In which the road of steel replaces the roads of the Romans, and the inns of the Borough suffer a terrible fate -- Concerning a mother and daughter, two brothers, and the condition of nostalgia -- In which the George Inn is sav'd for the nation, and a princess and a bishop have a lock-in -- Epilogue : a drink at the George Inn to-day. |
| Summary |
A tour through six centuries of history, through the stories of everyone that drank in one pub, the George Inn near London Bridge. |
| Subject |
George Inn (Enfield, London, England) -- History.
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Bars (Drinking establishments) -- England -- London -- History.
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Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
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London (England) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- History.
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Enfield (London, England) -- History.
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Great Britain -- History.
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| Other Uniform title |
Shakespeare's local
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| Other title |
Barstool history of London as seen through the windows of its oldest pub, the George Inn |
| ISBN |
9781250033888
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1250033888
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