LondonIs not their climate foggy, raw and dull? Henry V 3.5.16
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The most salient feature of London's history during Shakespeare's lifetime was its growth in population from about 80,000 in 1564 when he was born to over 200,000 when he died in 1616, at that point almost ten percent of the population of England. The theatres were south of the Thames, outside the city walls. The Puritans considered the theatre and all other forms of entertainment as a hotbed of vice. When Shakespeare arrived in London in the late 1580s, the theatrical scene was in the hands of university-educated playwrights and Christopher Marlowe's (1564 - 1593) Tamburlaine was holding the stage. But soon, the actor Shakespeare would turn playwright himself.
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