Hello! I’m travelling to the settings of all Shakespeare’s plays to see if anything interesting happens. This page is where I’m collecting all the posts I make about each area, and at the bottom is where I have yet to visit.
Henry VI, Part Three
I visited Towton Battlefield in Yorkshire, when the Globe put on all three parts of Henry VI on the actual field.
- Harry the Sixth (Part One)
- The Houses of York and Lancaster (Part Two)
- The True Tragedy of Richard, Duke of York (Part Three)
King Lear
Richard II
Richard III
- Bosworth Field: wine, touchscreens and killer falcons
- Leicester: Visiting the actual car park(!!!)
- ‘Richard III: Leicester’s Search for a King’ exhibition and medieval guildhall
Twelfth Night
- Orsino’s Illyria: Champagne and cocktails by the sea
- Feste’s Illyria: The rain it rained every day in Zagreb
- Viola and Sebastian’s Illyria: Sea people and land people
- Olivia’s Illyria: A wedding at St Euphemia’s Basilica in Rovinj
Yet to come
In the UK:
- Eastcheap, London (Henry IV, Part One)
- Westminster Abbey, London (Henry IV, Part Two)
- Southwark, London (Henry VI, Part Two)
- Hampton Court Palace (Henry VIII)
- Windsor Great Park, Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
- The forest of Arden, Warwickshire (As You Like It)
- Milford Haven, Wales (Cymbeline)
- Cawdor Castle, Inverness (Macbeth)
In Italy:
- Padua (The Taming of the Shrew)
- Rome (Titus Andronicus)
- Verona (Romeo and Juliet)
- Milan (Two Gentlemen of Verona)
- Venice (The Merchant of Venice)
- Messina (Much Ado About Nothing)
- Antium (Coriolanus)
In Greece and Turkey:
- Ephesus (The Comedy of Errors)
- Athens (Timon of Athens)
- ‘A wood near Athens’ (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
- Philippi (Julius Caesar)
- Troy (Troilus and Cressida)
In France and Spain:
- Agincourt and Troyes (Henry V)
- Angers (King John)
- Rouen and Orleans (Henry VI, Part One)
- Navarre (Love’s Labours Lost)
- Roussillon (All’s Well That Ends Well)
Around Europe:
- Elsinore (Hamlet)
- Vienna (Measure for Measure)
- Bohemia (ie, the Czech Republic) (The Winter’s Tale)
Around the Mediterranean:
- Cyprus (Othello)
- Alexandria (Antony and Cleopatra)
- Tyre (Pericles, Prince of Tyre)
- …and a mystery island (The Tempest)
I love Shakespeare. And want to thank you for this amazing article, actually a great collection of Shakespeare’s travel place. I decided to make a plan to visit those place as soon as possible.