View Maps: The Times and Places of Shakespeare

1. Tuscany
All's Well That Ends Well
Abraham Ortelius, Thusciae Descriptio Auctore Hieronymo Bellarmato
From: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1575)
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3. Warwickshire
As You Like It
Joan Blaeu, Wigorniensis comitatus et comitatus Warwicensis
From: Atlas Maior, Sive Cosmographia (1662)
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5. Great Britain
Cymbelline
John Speed, The Kingdom of Great Britaine and Ireland (1610)
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7. Rome
Julius Caesar; Titus Andronicus
Jean Jacques Boissard, I. pars Romanae Urbis Topographiae & Antiquitatum (1597)
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9. Navarre
Love's Labour's Lost
Joan Blaeu, Navarra Regnum
From: Atlas Maior, Sive Cosmographia (1662)
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11. Vienna
Measure for Measure
Hartmann Schedel, [Vienna]
From: Liber Cronicarum (The Nuremberg Chronicle) (1493)
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13. Cyprus
Othello
Abraham Ortelius, Cypri Insulae Nova Descript
From: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1575)
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15. Greece
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Girolamo Ruscelli, Graetia Nuova Tavola (1561)
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17. Messina
Much Ado About Nothing; The Winter's Tale
Frederick de Wit, Insula Sive Regnum Siciliae… (1675)
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19. Verona
Romeo and Juliet; Two Gentlemen of Verona
Hartmann Schedel, [Verona]
From: Liber Cronicarum (The Nuremberg Chronicle) (1493)
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21. Bermuda
The Tempest (The play takes place in the Mediterranean, but is based on a real-life wreck that happened in Bermuda)
Willem Blaeu, Mappa Aestivarum Insularum alias Bermudas dictarum (1635)
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23. World
[The world as a stage from Shakespeare's time]
Abraham Ortelius, [Title page]
From: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1575)
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