By modern standards the whole of greater London, including
Southwark and Westminster, was small. It stretched
only about two miles from north to south and three from east
to west, and could be crossed on foot in not much more than
an hour. But to an impressionable young provincial like William
Shakespeare the clamor and clutter and endless jostle, the
thought that any glimpsed face would in all likelihood never
be seen again, must have made it seem illimitable. This was,
after all, a city where a single theater held more people than his
hometown.
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