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In London In 1576: There they found themselves playing in the open, in daylight, on a relatively-bare stage surrounded on three sides by the audience. When one of these traveling companies built the first permanent English playhouse, the Theatre, in London in 1576, it naturally embodied the theatrical conditions that the actors knew and the repertoire demanded. New theaters of the same sort soon followed, including the Globe (1599), constructed by the same sponsors as the Theatre and forever associated with the name of Shakespeare.
They either have been completed in the last year or have planning permission, so together they present a realistic view of future London - a snapshot of the work of contemporary architects.
The 'London Wall' is arranged by London Borough to illustrate how change is affecting local communities as well as the wider metropolis.
Prefabulous London will explain why modern house types can answer the need for new homes in the capital.
London. The appropriate place to end a tour of Britain is London, the English capital, for there is summed up the character of the whole country.
London is not, like New York, a metropolis alien to its own hinterland. Cosmopolitan though it is, and thronged always with thousands of foreigners, it still remains the quintessence of Brit-ishness. It is no longer the largest city in the world, but it is perhaps the most widely experienced. Dr. Johnson said of it that "when a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." It remains for many travelers, in the words of John Gunther, "the king city of them all." |
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