In honour of the two world-class sporting events currently taking place, we at the bookshop thought it would be nice to give a brief description of what football and tennis were like in Shakespeare’s time. Roxanne talks, below, about sport and Shakespeare.
Untitled from Shakespeare Birthplace Trust on Vimeo.
The link to the Brian Blessed clip follows:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8752379.stm
Alison Sim’s Pleasures and Pastimes in Tudor England is on sale in The Shakespeare Bookshop for the bargain price of £1.99.
And, of course, several editions (some better than others) of Henry V can be purchased at various prices (some better than others).
