![]() ![]() But there was comfort to be had in simple, homely pleasures, and cares could be forgotten in a playhouse or the bull-baiting and bear-baiting rings, or watching a good cockfight. The diagnosis was frequently bizarre and the treatment could do more harm than good. Picard then turns her eye to the Londoners themselves, many of whom were afflicted by the plague, smallpox, and other diseases. Her account overflows with particulars of domestic life, right down to what was likely to be growing in London gardens. Picard examines the streets and the traffic in them she surveys building methods and shows us the decor of the rich and the not-so-rich. ![]() On the south bank, theaters and spectacles drew the crowds, and Southwark and Bermondsey were bustling with trade. The wealthy lived in mansions upriver, and the royal palaces were even farther up at Westminster. ![]() Beginning with the River Thames, she examines the city on the north bank, still largely confined within the old Roman walls. Liza Picard immerses her readers in the spectacular details of daily life in the London of Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603). ![]()
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