The PlayhovSe
EDUCATION
The educational opportunities at The Playhouse are starting to evolve. We hope this will become a vital part of our plans for the future, and cover –
Debate
LectvreS and TalkS
Storytelling
InteruiewS with WriterS, ActorS and HiStorianS
WorkShopS
Liuing HiStory
and ConferenceS
on:
Elizabethan Theatres, Elizabethans connected with the Manor, Shakespeare, Walter Raleigh
and his literary contemporaries, The Armada, At the Queen’s Court, Pirates of the Elizabethan Age,
Life here at the Manor in the 16th Century…and more besides.
Shakespeare and his contemporaries at
the Mermaid Tavern. Painting by John Faed, 1851.
The painting depicts (from left in back) Joshua Sylvester, John Selden, Francis Beaumont, (seated
at table from left) William Camden, Thomas Sackville, John Fletcher, Sir Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, John Donne, Samuel Daniel, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, the Earl of Southampton, Sir Robert Cotton, and Thomas Dekker.
Education Gallery