Shakespeare's pub a barstool history of London as seen through the windows of its oldest pub - the George Inn
"A history of Britain told through the story of one very special pub, from "The Beer Drinker's Bill Bryson" (Times Literary Supplement) Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-panelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab you...
| Main Author: | Brown, Pete, 1968- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : Concerning scandal, murder, smuggling, highwaymen, coffee, & C.
- In which we make the perilous and eventful journey to the George Inn, Southwark. From my house
- Concerning dates, names, Mutya, Heidi & C.
- Being some remarks on London's first bridge, and how this bridge gives our story its very shape
- On inns, taverns, alehouses, pubs and boozers. But mainly inns, and the distinctive nature thereof
- The poet's tale, or, how English literature was born in a Southwark inn
- In which we meet the inhabitants of sinful Southwark, and the patrons of its divers inns, taverns and alehouses
- Concerning bulls, bears, actors and other beasts, and their various 'entertainments', including the sad tale of a monkey on a horse
- Further unsavoury activities in inns and alehouses, and how these places were burn'd by almighty God's fury (if you believe in that sort of thing)
- Our inn enjoys a golden age of romance, highwaymen, complicated timetables and sore posteriors
- Concerning drink, hops and politics, and how the George Inn brings these elements together
- In which the road of steel replaces the roads of the Romans, and the inns of the Borough suffer a terrible fate
- Concerning a mother and daughter, two brothers, and the condition of nostalgia
- In which the George Inn is sav'd for the nation, and a princess and a bishop have a lock-in
- Epilogue : a drink at the George Inn to-day
- Timeline and dramatis personae.