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Author(s): Paul Edmondson; Kevin Colls; William Mitchell; William Mitchell
ISBN(s): 9781526106506, 1526106507
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Year: 2016
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ISBN 10: 1526106507 
ISBN 13: 9781526106506
Author: Paul Edmondson, Kevin Colls, William Mitchell

This ground-breaking book provides an abundance of fresh insights into Shakespeare’s life in relation to his lost family home, New Place. The findings of a major archaeological excavation encourage us to think again about what New Place meant to Shakespeare and, in so doing, challenge some of the long-held assumptions of Shakespearian biography. New Place was the largest house in the borough and the only one with a courtyard. Shakespeare was only ever an intermittent lodger in London. His impressive home gave Shakespeare significant social status and was crucial to his relationship with Stratford-upon-Avon. Archaeology helps to inform biography in this innovative and refreshing study which presents an overview of the site from prehistoric times through to a richly nuanced reconstruction of New Place when Shakespeare and his family lived there, and beyond. This attractively illustrated book is for anyone with a passion for archaeology or Shakespeare.

Finding Shakespeare s New Place An Archaeological Biography 1st Table of contents:

1 Ancient beginnings: the site of New Place from the prehistoric to the early medieval period
The prehistoric origins of Stratford-upon-Avon
An introduction to prehistoric archaeology
Agricultural and societal development in the Neolithic period
The Neolithic inhabitants of Stratford-upon-Avon
The Bronze Age in Stratford-upon-Avon
Societal change in the Iron Age
Iron Age settlement within Stratford-upon-Avon
The New Place site in the Iron Age
What was found on site?
Sowing and harvesting of crops
Drying of corn, pot-boilers, and the use of fire-cracked stones
Crop storage
Later prehistoric pit alignments and pit clusters
The grinding of corn and use of rotary quernstones within the home
The pottery
The urbanisation of Stratford-upon-Avon
The Roman and Anglo-Saxon presence
The origins of modern Stratford-upon-Avon and ‘Old Town’
Stratford-upon-Avon: an example of medieval town planning
What trades were established in the newly established borough market town?
The location: what was in the surrounding area?
The construction of the Guild Chapel and the possibility that there are associations with the New Place site
The site of New Place in the thirteenth century
The building from the 1200s to the 1400s
The layout of the building
The building’s appearance
The building materials
Industrial and domestic activity on the site
The finds of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
The pottery of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
Continuation of occupation into the later fifteenth century
References
2 The origins of New Place: Hugh Clopton’s ‘grete house’ of c. 1483
Hugh Clopton
New Place: Hugh Clopton’s ‘grete house’
What was Clopton’s House like?
The front range
The cellar
The courtyard
The wells
The passage
The hall building
The hall service rooms: buttery/bake-house and pantry
The kitchen/brew-house
The parlour
Rear entrance, courtyard and outbuildings
The backplots (gardens)
The construction materials of New Place
The artefacts
Comparable dwellings in and around Stratford-upon-Avon
After Hugh Clopton
References
3 Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon, 1564–96
The Shakespeares of Henley Street
What was Stratford-upon-Avon like?
Religion, morality and theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare at school
No years lost: occupation, marriage and family life
Seeing plays in Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare and London
Financial and social investments
References
4 Shakespeare and New Place, 1597–1616, and later occupants to 1677
Some residents of New Place before Shakespeare
New Place in Shakespearian biography
The mistress of New Place: Anne Shakespeare
A commuting brotherhood: Gilbert, Richard and Edmund Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s cousin and lodger at New Place, Thomas Greene
New Place and Shakespeare’s growing reputation
Shakespeare and the gardens of New Place
Shakespeare’s business investments and money, and New Place
New Place as a writer’s house
New Place: Shakespeare’s death and legacies
Commemorating Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon and London
New Place after Shakespeare: a break-in, a book and a royal visit
References
5 A reconstruction of Shakespeare’s New Place
The earliest surviving sketch
The frontage of New Place: an architectural comparison
‘A long gallery’?
‘I know you are now, sir, a gentleman born’ (The Winter’s Tale, 5.2.134)
Entering the courtyard of New Place
Shakespeare’s renovation of New Place
The gatehouse range
Evidence of redevelopment within the cellar
Shakespeare’s adaptation of the hall range
The redevelopment of the screens-passage
The service rooms
Evidence for renovations to the pantry and kitchen buildings.
The brick storage tanks
Shakespeare’s barns
Artistic reconstructions of Shakespeare’s New Place
What was life like in Shakespeare’s New Place?
Relics from New Place: real, assumed and wished-for
References
6 After Shakespeare: New Place, 1677–1759
Who was Sir John Clopton?
Sir John Clopton and New Place
The internal furnishings of the eighteenth-century house: documentary evidence
Why did Sir John Clopton rebuild New Place?
Late-seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century house design
What happened to Shakespeare’s New Place?
What was Sir John Clopton’s New Place like?
The archaeological evidence: the kitchen basements
The ground and first floors
The attics and roof terrace
The passage
The gardens (‘wilderness’)
The outbuildings (dovecote, stables, barns and outhouses?)
Building materials
Artefactual evidence from Sir John’s New Place
The external appearance of the eighteenth-century house
Comparative examples of Queen Anne mansion houses
Clopton House
Mason Croft, Church Street
Stratford Prep School/Old Croft School, Old Town
The Bishop’s Palace, Lichfield
The occupation of the Revd Francis Gastrell
References
7 The archaeologies of New Place
After Gastrell
Halliwell-Phillipps, Shakespeare and New Place
The archaeological excavations (1862–63)
The site after Halliwell-Phillipps’s excavations
The well
Halliwell-Phillipps’s achievements
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Ernest Law’s excavations: 1919–20
Dig for Shakespeare: a community experience
The legacy of Dig for Shakespeare
References
Closing remarks
References
Glossary of archaeological and architectural terms
The Dig for Shakespeare Academic Advisory Board ARCHAEOLOGISTS and volunteers

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