First Person: London, c. 1615

An episode from 12/5/21: Tonight, I read from chapter six of Peter Ackroyd’s history of early seventeenth-century England, ⁠Civil War (or Rebellion⁠, as the book has been retitled in its America). As usual, few writers are as ablet as Ackroyd to bring the past to life, and he uses two texts to paint a brief picture of London at the time: Thomas Dekker’s ⁠The Seven Deadly Sins of London⁠ (1607), and Ben Jonson’s play ⁠Bartholomew Fair⁠ (1614).

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