Shakespeare's Globe

Walk Bankside with expert guides as they uncover Elizabethan London’s ferrymen, animal-baiting sports and the story of the Rose playhouse. Your ticket also includes entry to the Globe’s exhibition, and the tour lasts around 90 minutes.

Explore new research on Shakespeare, race and performance through two case studies: a Macbeth production in colonial Zimbabwe and the racial significance of bastardy in The Winter’s Tale. Hear scholars Dr Eli Cumings and Dr Lydia Valentine discuss how performance can rewrite the past.

Walk Bankside with expert guides to uncover its criminal past and Shakespeare’s links to early modern London, including why he was summoned to court three times. Explore stories of duels, violence and rival playwrights, then finish at Guildhall; your ticket also includes exhibition entry.