golden age
...mbers of professional actors and attracted large but not always well-behaved audiences. There was an insatiable demabd for new plays and well over 800 plays were written and performed in London between 1570 and 1620. Brilliant playwrights emerged, like Marlowe, Jonson, Webster and of course Sheakspeare. What caused this burst of literary activity to take place? At this time London was undergoing dramatic changes. It was growing rapidly, attracting thousands from the countryside, such as the young William Shakespeare from Stratford. The city was also undergoing an economic revolution as a centre of commerce with ships from London going all over world. London was the home of the English court and aristocracy, but traditional society was being revolutionised by the new money from trade. London was apl...