A posting from Julia Walker, temporarily unable to post directly. Jameela
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> From: Julia Walker <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri Feb 6, 2004 2:55:58 PM America/New_York
> To: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Renaissance London
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> Try taking them to the Stuart Banqueting Hall just down Whitehall from
> Trafalgar Square. The audio guides are great, and the explications of
> the murals/ceiings -- all astonishing -- are excellent summaries of
> lit, myth, history, and politics. Also where Charles I stepped out a
> window to be executed.
>
> Don't miss the British Sound Archive in the public exhibition room at
> the new British Library.
>
> The Renaissance rooms at the Brit Museum and the V & A make good
> lessons if you scout them ahead of time to see what's out an what's
> open (I teach January courses on this sort of stuff.) And,of course,
> the National Portrait Gallery. . .
>
> Julia
>
> On Friday, February 6, 2004, at 01:55 PM, Michael Saenger wrote:
>
>> I would like to pose a question to the list which, although not
>> directly
>> linked to Sidney or Spenser, I feel would be of interest to most
>> subscribers.
>>
>> I will be teaching for a semester in London in the Fall, and I'd like
>> to
>> organize trips within London where students can see vivid
>> preservations or
>> recreations of Renaissance London. I'd like to see if people have
>> suggestions on places which can currently be seen which reflect on the
>> Renaissance in general, and literary production in particular. Thank
>> you.
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