Walking Tour - Literary Southwark : Poets, Writers and 2 Famous Diarists!
A walking tour through Southwark that visits sites linked to Shakespeare, Keats, Chaucer, Dickens and other writers, including places tied to Pepys and Rowling. AI summary of the listing
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On today’s walk, we will be venturing through the streets of Southwark to discover literary associations with some of the most famous writers of this country’s history The area of Bankside was important for the growth of theatre in the Tudor and Jacobean period – so we look at the lives of writers such as William Shakespeare, Kit Marlow and Ben Johnson We will visit the hospital where John Keats worked and also hear…
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