Shakespeare in the City

St. Paul's tube station, London (exit 1)

Guided by Ian

Walk Times

Day	Walk Type	Start Time	End Time
14 September 2023	Special	6 pm	8 pm	Summer

N.B., Guide Ian offers this tour on a donation basis. Everything he makes he donates to the Horizon Scandal Fund.* Not to put too fine a point on it, Ian F. is one of life’s good guys.**

And London Walks will also put its shoulder to the wheel, get on board, donate a big chunk of its commission to the Horizon Scandal Fund.

*The Horizon Scandal Fund supports victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal, the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British History

So make no mistake, this one’s the platonic ideal of a good cause London Walk!

**Same goes, incidentally, for Ian’s other shoe-leather-on-pavement London Walks – those proceeds go to the World Jewish Relief’s Ukraine Crisis Appeal! charity.  Short read: inner and outer worlds.

Fanfare read: Shakespeare’s life is a tale of two towns. Stratford bred him, London provided him with a stage – literally and figuratively – for his fortune.

Long read: Welcome to Shakespeare’s London. The London where he lived and worked. The London he drew inspiration from. The outer world of his inner world. Everything from St. Paul’s to the unfortunate Jewish doctor who inspired Shakespeare to create Shylock to the pandemonium of the lanes and alleys of mediaeval London to Stationers’ Hall, where the earliest printed copies of his works were registered, to the theatre where unscrupulous playhouse managers forced kidnapped boys to perform. London places that open a window on his life, his times, his world… and his art. Guided by Ian.

SHAKESPEARE IN THE CITY – THE PRACTICALS

Shakespeare in the City takes place on Monday, September 14th at 6 pm. Meet Ian just outside exit 1 of St. Paul’s  Tube.

Guide Ian donates his fee to the Horizon Scandal Fund. And London Walks donates most of its commission.