Blackfriars
Monastic London neighborhood
Blackfriars is an area of central London, named for the black-robed Dominican friars who established a monastery there in the 13th century.
The name attaches to a bridge, a railway station, and the surrounding district: We crossed Blackfriars Bridge at sunset.
The Blackfriars Theatre was an important Elizabethan playhouse where Shakespeare's company performed.
Structure spanning an obstacle
- stationFixed stopping point
- ThamesLondon's river
- tubeHollow cylindrical passage
- railwayTrack system for trains
underground · City · platform · commuter · terminus · pedestrian · crossing · Victorian
Preaching order member
- prioryLesser monastic house
- monasteryReligious seclusion dwelling
- habitSettled regular tendency
- preachingDelivering moral discourse
order · medieval · convent · cloister · mendicant · religious · dissolution · chapter
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
- TudorSixteenth-century English ruling family
- ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
- trialJudicial examination of claims
Catherine of Aragon · annulment · ecclesiastical · court · medieval · ruins · precinct · liberties
bridge
Structure spanning an obstacle
railway · underground · City · platform · commuter · terminus · pedestrian · crossing · Victorian · trains
Dominican
Preaching order member
preaching · order · medieval · convent · cloister · mendicant · religious · dissolution · chapter · refectory
Henry VIII
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
- TudorSixteenth-century English ruling family
- ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
trial · Catherine of Aragon · annulment · ecclesiastical · court · medieval · ruins · precinct · liberties · monks
playhouse
Miniature structure for children
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- indoorWithin a building
- theatreArt of staged performance
stage · candlelit · performances · drama · Jacobean · actors · audience · galleries · company · repertory
- train stationstrain, track, tracks, platform, platforms
- UK StationsKings Cross, Paddington, Victoria, Waterloo, Charing Cross
- Early TheaterShakespeare, Elizabethan theatre, Globe Theatre, Marlowe, morality plays
- Elizabethan LondonGlobe Theatre, Southwark, River Thames, Shakespeare, Shoreditch
- Elizabethan theaterGlobe Theatre, groundlings, heavens, trap door, trapdoor
- monasteriesabbey, abbeys, abbot, abbots, abbess