Thursday 29 July 2010

Shakespeare's birth house

This is purportedly the bed on which Shakespeare was born, or at least the room in which he was born. The house is set up to look very like it would have then. The trundle bed on the side is where the children slept and the wall paper is made of linen, it hangs quite loosely on the walls and was painted by decorators after it had been hung a the walls were never square. The dress on the bed was worn by both girls and boys at the time as boys had a higher mortality rate and so they tried to trick the devil into thinking they were only girls. (How many cross dressing gender confused adults they produced we will never know.)

1 comment:

  1. Did you stand there quoting Romeo and Juliet?? Ha! HA!

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