District Timeline maps
Key Events and Key Places will be mapped for each of our four playhouse districts – Blackfriars, Cockpit, Curtain, and Fortune. The District Timeline maps provide a mapping interface for exploring the local geography of each district around the year 1616 and spatial relationships within and beyond the district. They combine a chronological listing of Key Events with a map of each Playhouse District, to tell the story of each playhouse through the key historical events extracted from our selected records. These are listed chronologically in the expandable table beside the map; clicking on an event will display further information about the event, and highlight the locations related to the event on the map, such as the residences of the participants, locations where plays were staged or viewed, or businesses which were involved in the event.
Here, you can explore a theatrical district via the mapping of these events, and take your own historical journey through and beyond the playhouses. An alternative way of exploring the district is a map showing Key Places which may be explored independently from the event timeline.
District Timeline maps are available under the Maps and Timelines navigation menu.
Search Pages: People, Places and Collectives
Every person, place or collective that features in our Key Records or is significant for the background research for our district maps can be found here. Searches can be conducted on all individuals, for example, or can be filtered to list the more significant Key People only. You can discover on these pages basic known information about these people and places (dates of birth or death, occupation, residence, etc.). In doing so, you can also see where on the maps or in our Key Events these individuals, collectives or places feature. What links them to a district or an event? What is their relationship to a playhouse? Where, in other words, do they fit into Shakespeare’s Theaterscape…?
