Front Cover: A partial representation by Imtiaz Habib of the locations of black people in Elizabethan
London derived from documentary sources and superimposed on [Georg Braun and Frans
Hogenberg], Londinum feracissimi Angliae Regni metropolis ([Cologne], [1574]), hand-colored
and letterpress text in Latin on back from 1635 edition; Folger Shakespeare Library Shelfmark:
MAP L85c no.27. This map is used by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Black diamonds represent
locations of black people as mentioned in the documentary sources cited in the Map Key
and Documentary Sources (see pages 163–71). Additional markings that exceed the edge of the
map can be found on the Map Key (see pages 164–65) and in the attendant list of
Documentary Sources (see pages 163–71). Red circles indicate recorded residential neighborhoods
of theater personnel (see E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage, vol. 2 [Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1997]; Emma Marshall Denkinger, Minstrels and Musicians in the Registers of
St. Botolph, Aldgate [Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1931]; William Ingram, “‘Neere the Playe
Howse’: The Swan Theater and Community Blight,” Renaissance Drama 4 (1971): 53–68;
William Ingram, “The Globe Playhouse and Its Neighbours in 1600,” Essays in Theatre 2
(1984): 63–72; and William Ingram, The Business of Playing: The Beginnings of the Adult
Professional Theater in Elizabethan London [Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1992]). Blue circles identify
documented residences of Shakespeare in London (see S. Schoenbaum, William
Shakespeare: A Documentary Life [New York: Oxford UP, 1975]; and Michael Wood,
Shakespeare [London: Basic Books, 2003]). All locations are approximate.