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Tudor London

1.Write a list of the most oustanding buildings in Tudor London. If you need any help, try the next websites.

Whitehall Palace His son, Henry VIII, was another great palatial builder. He expanded York House, the London residence of the Archbishop of York, to become the Palace of Whitehall, joining Westminster with Charing Cross.
Somerset House The Strand Inn and the Church of the Nativity, as well as the houses of the Bishops of Chester and Worcester, were torn down to make way for this new Somerset House.
Greenwich Palace St. Bartholomew & St. Thomas's Hospitals He confiscated Hampton Court from Cardinal Wolsey and added much of what we see there today. However, Henry's favourite residence was Greenwich Palace, where he had been born; and it thus became the scene of many important historical episodes during his reign.
Richmond Palace He was the last monarch to have a permanent residence within the city walls. He also rebuilt the Palace of Sheen, when it burnt to the ground in 1498, and had it renamed as Richmond Palace. He died there in 1509.

St. Bartholomew & St. Thomas's Hospitals Thomas's Hospital, also still extant, though it was moved, in the 19th century, from the Southwark side of London Bridge to Lambeth. The refoundation of the Bethlehem Hospital for the mentally ill (Bedlam), outside Bishopgate, was also laid at Henry's door.

Christ's Hospital School Christ's Hospital School for the education of poor children, was created from the Greyfriars' buildings at Newgate. However, it was largely the efforts of the rising merchants which helped the situation by their establishing new educational foundations.

Gray's inn Though the Inns of Chancery were in decline, the Inns of Court continued their educational role in the city and their great halls are a magnificent survival from the Tudor age. The Old Hall at Lincoln's Inn dates from 1490, Gray's Inn from 1556 (though much restored in 1951) and Middle Temple from 1573. Shakespeare performed several of his plays in them.

Tudor London

In Tudor times the City was the centre of trade and commerce as well as the overcrowded home of thousands. Westminster housed both the king and parliament while Southwark was devoted to louche pleasures such as bear-baiting, prostitution and the theatre. These three distinct areas were surrounded by countryside.

Find out a bit more about the London where both Elizabeth and Shakespeare lived.

Catherine of Aragon

Catherine of Aragon was the first wife of Henry VIII. She was born on December 16, 1485. Catherine was the youngest daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. She was betrothed to Arthur, Henry's older brother, at age three. She was widowed less than six months into the marriage. She was then betrothed to Henry. In order to keep a political alliance with Spain, Henry was advised to marry Catherine immediately. Catherine and Henry VIII were married in 1509. To keep the family name alive and to insure a stable Tudor monarchy and line of succession, Henry needed a son. It has been noted that in the first nine years of marriage Catherine conceived six times. Twice she miscarried, one child was stillborn, and two sons died in early infancy. In 1516, Princess Mary was born. Catherine was getting older, and there was still not a male heir to the throne. A daughter was not good enough for Henry because a woman had never ruled England. Henry was losing patience with Catherine because she could not bear a son. He had many affairs during the last years of their marriage, two of which are well-documented. One was with Elizabeth Blount, who bore him a son, and the other with Mary Boleyn, the sister of the more famous Anne. In 1527 Henry fell in love with Anne Boleyn. Henry eventually tried to prove that his marriage to Catherine had never been valid, basing his claim on Old Testament scripture which says marriage to one's brother's widow constitutes incest. During this time Catherine tried to defend her name, marriage, and the legitimacy of her child. Soon after, she was banished from the kingdom. Catherine lived in seclusion from this time till the time of her death.

The Globe Theatre

The Globe Theatre is a faithful reconstruction of the open-air playhouse first built in 1599, where Shakespeare worked and for which he wrote many of his greatest plays.Each year the theatre season runs from April to October with productions of the work by Shakespeare and modern authors, and plays to an audience of 350,000 who experience the ‘wooden O’ sitting in a gallery or standing as a groundling in the yard, just as they would have done 400 years ago.The Globe's actual dimensions are unknown, but its shape and size can be approximated from scholarly inquiry over the last two centuries.[13] The evidence suggests that it was a three-storey, open-air amphitheatre approximately 100 feet (30 m) in diameter that could house up to 3,000 spectators.[14] The Globe is shown as round on Wenceslas Hollar's sketch of the building, later incorporated into his engraved "Long View" of London in 1647. However, in 1988-89, the uncovering of a small part of the Globe's foundation suggested that it was a polygon of 20 sides.[15At the base of the stage, there was an area called the pit,[16] (or, harking back to the old inn-yards, yard[17]) where, for a penny, people (the "groundlings") would stand on the rush-strewn earthen floor to watch the performance.[18] During the excavation of the Globe in 1989 a layer of nutshells was found, pressed into the dirt flooring so as to form a new surface layer.[6] Around the yard were three levels of stadium-style seats, which were more expensive than standing room.

1. TELL ME THE NAME OF THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS

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